Aishvarya Arora is a poet, teaching artist, and cultural organizer from Queens, NY. They’re the author of Mr. Time (Gold Line Press, 2026) and their writing has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, and The Offing, among other publications. 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.