Aurora Masum-Javed is a poet and educator. A former public-school teacher, she holds an MFA from Cornell University. Her work can be found in various journals including Nimrod, Aster(ix), Winter Tangerine, and Frontier. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Millay Arts, Caldera Arts, and Kundiman. A recent Philip Roth Resident and Hub City Writer in Residence, she is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College in Minnesota, where she is working on her first collection of poems.