Author bio:

Shlagha Borah (she/her) is from Assam, India. Her work appears/is forthcoming in Waxwing, Cincinnati Review, ANMLY, Salamander, Nashville Review, Florida Review, Sonora Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is an Editorial Assistant at The Offing. She’s a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist and winner of the 2025 Miami Book Fair Poetry Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her chapbook manuscript, Red Sky, is a finalist in the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her work has been supported by Brooklyn Poets, The Hambidge Center, The Peter Bullough Foundation, VCCA, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Best New Poets. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India. She lives in Okemos, Michigan.

    • Editorial Assistant,The Offing, 2023 - present

    • Reading Series Coordinator, Sundress Academy for the Arts, 2023- 2024

    • Assistant Poetry Editor, Grist Journal, 2022- 2023

    • Assistant Poetry Editor, Doubleback Review, 2021- 2024

    • Editor-in-Chief, Shabd Aaweg Review, 2022

    • Editorial Intern, Katha Publications, New Delhi, 2020

    • Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, 2024- present

    • Instructor of First-Year English Composition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2023- 2024

    • Instructor for English 263: Introduction to Creative Writing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2023

    • Tutor, Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center, University of Tennessee, 2022- 2023

    • CIRTL Practitioner, Online Teaching and Digital Learning, 2024

    • Workshop Instructor, “Angry Poems: Mental health and poetry”, Brian M. Conley Young Writers’ Institute, February 2023

    • Workshop Instructor, “Writing about Place”, The Bottom, Knoxville, November 2022