Aliyah Cotton

Aliyah Cotton (she/her) is a queer poet of color from Reston, Virginia. She earned an MFA from Boston University, where she received a 2020 Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her work has been published in Adroit, TheEmerson Review, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Rust & Moth, and Southern Humanities Review. She is a 2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholar.