CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and translator. Their work appears in The Offing, Pleiades, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, and others. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart Prize nominee. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2025.

CD is assistant poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine and a member of the editorial board for Exposition Review, where they were previously poetry editor. They also worked as the Series Coordinator for the Open Mouth Literary Center. They’re currently an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas where they've received the Walton Family Fellowship in Poetry, the James T. Whithead Award in Poetry, and the Lily Peter Fellowship in Translation. Once, they were in a punk band.