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Aishvarya Arora

Aishvarya Arora is a poet, teaching artist, and cultural organizer from Queens, NY. Their chapbook “Mr. Time” won the Gold Line Press Poetry Contest and will be published in 2026. Their writing has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, and Foglifter, among others. 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.

Interviews

Aishvarya Arora

Mar 18, 2026

What Resists the Burn Barrel: A Conversation with Mickie Kennedy

“Trust that the reader is intelligent enough to hop through time: moving back and forth between child and adult speakers. Freed of chronology, I immediately felt like “The Pact” would be a great opening for the book: intense, aggressive, grounding…
Interviews

Aishvarya Arora

Dec 22, 2025

Engineering in Reverse: A Conversation with Natalie Shapero

“I did a lot of research about Monet, in the course of writing this book, and he was known in his time for having many paintings in progress simultaneously, working outdoors on a landscape canvas with a bunch of partially…

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Aishvarya Arora

What Resists the Burn Barrel: A Conversation with Mickie Kennedy

Engineering in Reverse: A Conversation with Natalie Shapero