Aishvarya Arora (b. Hanumangarh, India) is a poet and double Taurus from Queens. Their work has received support from the Fulbright Program, Tupelo Press’s Merrill Family Fellowship, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition Fellow. Currently, Aishvarya teaches poetry to first-year students at Cornell University, where they’re an MFA candidate. Their writing is featured in, or forthcoming from, Poetry Northwest, The Margins, The Hopkins Review, Apogee, and others.
This poem previously appeared in Harana Poetry.