Aishvarya Arora is the author of Mr. Time (Gold Line Press, 2026). As a poet, teaching artist, and cultural organizer, they’ve received support from the Fulbright Program, Tupelo Press’s Merrill Family Scholarship, Brew & Forge, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition Fellow. Their writing is featured in or forthcoming from Poetry, Gulf Coast, The Hopkins Review, Foglifter, The Offing, and elsewhere. Originally from Queens, they currently live in Ithaca, where they teach creative writing at Cornell University and create poetry ephemera through Lavender Codex, their micro-press. Find them online at coolslug.wordpress.com.
Poetry
Fall 2025
stone butch sonnet
The Kenyon Review · “Stone Butch Sonnet” by Aishvarya Arora to say each curl & wavethat crowns my freshly shaved fadedraws hands to mehow outside the library on jackson avekernels […]