Shlagha Borah (she/her) is from Assam, India. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. She works as an Editorial Assistant at The Offing. Her work has received support from Brooklyn Poets, Sundress Academy for the Arts, The Hambidge Center, The Peter Bullough Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India.