Overview
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 Diannely 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. At Cornell, Arora's writing has been awarded the Robert Chasen Memorial Prize, the George Garmon Coxe Poetry Prize, and the Migrations Creative Writing Award. 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. Find them online at coolslug.wordpress.com.
In the news
- Creative writing MFA students represent literary magazine at annual industry bookfair
- Student Spotlight: Aishvarya Arora