Spring 2023 seminar: M.F.A Poetry Candidate
Aishvarya Arora is a poet and arts worker from Queens, New York. Arora is a graduate of Tufts University and spent a year in Delhi, India, on a Fulbright Fellowship studying participatory research methods and learning how to express their emotions in Hindi. From 2021–2022 they were the Poetry Coalition Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop. They're currently an M.F.A. candidate in Poetry at Cornell University, where they write about grief, desire, and birds. You can read their work in harana poetry and in the zine To Us and Ours: An Asian American Feminist Collection.