Aishvarya Arora is a poet, teaching artist, and cultural organizer from Queens, NY. They’re the author of Mr. Time, which was selected by Diannely Antigua as the winner of the Gold Line Press Poetry Contest and will be published in 2026. Aishvarya 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. Their poetry is featured in, or forthcoming from, Poetry Northwest, The Offing, The Hopkins Review, Foglifter, Apogee, and elsewhere. Currently they teach poetry to first-year students at Cornell University. Find them online at coolslug.wordpress.com.