Malvika Jolly is a poet, translator, and educator based in New York City. She has been featured in MIZNA, The Rumpus, Salt Hill Journal, The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2023, and in programs for the Brooklyn Rail, Method Bandra, The Poetry Society of New York, and The New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the recipient of support from Brooklyn Poets, City Lore, Dara Shikoh Literary Festival, Davis Projects for Peace, Threewalls, Radius of Arab American Writers, and The Watering Hole. She serves as the programs coordinator for Tamaas | تماس, as a senior editor for Poetry Northwest, and curates The New Third World, a poetry reading series inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement. Photo Credit: Daniella Toosie-Watson