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