Rhodopsin [2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Featured Finalist]

Aria Pahari is a Nepali American poet from Virginia who received her MFA in poetry at the University of Arizona. Through her poems, she explores the concept of intimacy through registers of asexuality, femininity/the matrilineal, animals, sisterhood, and touch. Her poems can be found in Waxwing, Honey Literary, Homology Lit, and The Margins.