aera
arushi (aera) rege
Select publications
conversation with my mom in which i discuss a "normal amount" of pain
desert salvation
twin exit wounds & a love song
forthcoming publications
BROWN GIRL EPIPHANY with fifth wheel press (march, 2025)
nuclear winter, burning planet (koru magazine)
the person you love has a chemical reaction in the medial prefrontal cortex (the cloudscent)
IDIOSYNCRATIC TIMELINE (corporeal lit)
sidewalk chalk (corporeal lit)
u r my sunshine (memezine)
what to do after an especially bad morning of pain (genrepunk mag, 7/10/24)
threes (eunoia review)
ghazal for ghost town (eunoia review)
time-old wounds (eunoia review)
machinery of the body / underyoume (healthline zine)
catfight (burn book zine, prismatica press & manicpixie mag)
secret of youth (persephone's fruit)
signed letters of love (persephone's fruit)
saturday mornings (filter coffee zine)
some days, the brown girl dares to dream of love (funicular lit)
congressional inception meets tournament of champions (beestung mag)
publications
poetry
2023
- in which my greatest fear is to fail (stone of madness press)
- everything is more beautiful because we are doomed (stone of madness press)
- fusion (full house lit)
- on the topic of modern domesticity (RECESSES Zine)
- falesia (The Expressionist Lit Mag)
- this is healing (The Afterpast Review)
- exploration of woman as a horror antagonist (thin veil press)
- blood bones and butter (vulnerary magazine)
- dust storm season (full house lit)
- heatwave warning (gastropoda lit)
- the garden of eden's calling (fifth wheel press)
2024
- mama says she wants her body back darling (en*gendered lit)
- red rock & snow (londemere lit)
- twin exit wounds & a love song (garden party collective)
- bloodspit (ode to dionysus)
- mom says i'm a manic pixie dream girl (ode to dionysus)
- desert salvation (don't submit)
- ode to hozier's francesca (periwinkle pelican)
- lifecycle & love (periwinkle pelican)
- the year i fell in love, i remembered the desert (periwinkle pelican)
- mulberry wine (juste literary)
- the six things i heard after being slutshamed by my friend for the first time (incandescent blog post)
- diet cherry coke (queer poets collective)
Collections
BROWN GIRL EPIPHANY
coming soon with fifth wheel press. march 2025
awards & nominations
Best Small Fictions 2023 (tangerines)
Garden party Collective Flyover States Competition Winner (twin exit wounds & a love song)
National society of arts and letters arizona chapter 2023/2024 poetry contest winner (dust storm season)
masthead
nightshade lit mag (EIC + founder)
bus talk lit (co-eic + founder)
draupadi interviews (EIC + founder)
the afterpast review (editor)
the cloudscent journal (poetry editor)
the incandescent review (writer)
reviews / interviews
contact
about
Arushi (Aera) Rege is a queer, Indian-American poet who simultaneously attends junior year in high school. In their free time, they can be found reading good books, listening to R&B, and stressing over college. They tweet occasionally @academic (underscore) core and face the perils of instagram @aeranem (underscore) 26. Their works have been published or are forthcoming in Stone of Madness Press, Full House Literary Magazine, fifth wheel press, and more. You can find their website at arushiaerarege.carrd.co.