Shlagha Borah

Shlagha Borah (she/her) was born in Assam, India. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is an editorial assistant at The Offing. Her work has been published in The Cincinnati Review, Salamander, Nashville Review, The Florida Review, South Dakota Review, and other outlets. She is the finalist of a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and has received support from Brooklyn Poets, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Hambidge Center, the Peter Bullough Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She cofounded Pink Freud, a student-led collective working toward making mental health services accessible in India.