Year Admitted: 2024
Bio
Kanika Ahuja is a poet and educator from New Delhi, India. She is a first year PhD Student in Literary Studies focusing on contemporary poetics and craft as criticism. She holds a BA (Hons.) in English from the University of Delhi, an MA in English from Ambedkar University Delhi, and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Purdue University. The winner of the 2023 Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize (Purdue University) and the AWP Intro Journals Project 2022, her poems appear, or are forthcoming, at Poetry Daily, Puerto Del Sol, and elsewhere.
Interests
Poetry and Poetics, Asian American Diaspora
Selected Publication(s)
“Cross-Examination” (Poem) in We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, No’u Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu (Haymarket Books, 2024).