Aishvarya Arora

Aishvarya Arora (b. Hanumangarh, India) is a poet, teaching artist, and cultural organizer from Queens, NY. They’re the author of Mr. Time (Gold Line Press, 2026), selected by Diannelly Antigua as winner of the Gold Line Press Poetry Contest. Their writing has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, and Foglifter, among other publications. They’ve received additional support from the Fulbright Program, Brew and Forge, Tupelo Press’s Merril Family Scholarship, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition fellow. Currently, they live in Ithaca, NY, where they are a lecturer in creative writing at Cornell University and create poetry ephemera through their micro-press, Lavender Codex. Find them online at coolslug.wordpress.com.