Shlagha Borah

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Shlagha Borah is from Assam, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Quarterly West, Florida Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is an Assistant Editor at The Offing. She’s a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. Her work has been supported by Tin House, Brooklyn Poets, The Hambidge Center, The Peter Bullough Foundation, VCCA, among others. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India.
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  • On Monsters

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    “What hunger, what pain did these monsters embody, and why were they deemed demonic?”
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