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)
exit wounds (no point of entry) with Kith Books
high school speech and debate (zero readers)
imprecise victories (anti-heroin chic)
luyten's star (londemere lit)
untitled photograph (londemere lit)
i deserve to be angry i just want to be more (querencia press)
ode to goa (the tide rises, the tide falls)
goa (incandescent review blog post)
ode to goa (the tide rises, the tide falls)
nuclear winter, burning planet (koru magazine)
the person you love has a chemical reaction in the medial prefrontal cortex (the cloudscent)
threes (eunoia review)
ghazal for ghost town (eunoia review)
time-old wounds (eunoia review)
joint pain obituary (wishbone words)
we're playing a game, you & i (wishbone words)
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)
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)
- alien blues - vundarbar (originally: HAUNTING OF THE BODY) (major 7th mag)
- machinery of the body / underyoume (healthline zine)
- u r my sunshine (memezine)
- IDIOSYNCRATIC TIMELINE (corporeal lit)
- sidewalk chalk (corporeal lit)
- skeleton flowers in the rain tell me (lincs & ink)
- what to do after an especially bad morning of pain (genrepunk mag)
- some days, the brown girl dares to dream of love (funicular lit)
Collections
| Title | press | year | format |
|---|---|---|---|
| exit wound (no point of entry) | kith books | 2024 | poetry |
| Brown Girl Epiphany | fifth wheel press | 2025 | poetry |
awards & nominations
Best Small Fictions 2023 (tangerines)
Garden party Collective Flyover States Competition Winner (twin exit wounds & a love song)
garden party collective chapbook contest finalist (myths untold)
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)
press
contact
about
Arushi (Aera) Rege is a queer, Indian-American poet who simultaneously attends senior 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. They are the proud authors of BROWN GIRL EPIPHANY and exit wound (no point of entry). They are the EIC of nightshade lit, Bus Talk, and Draupadi Interviews & Micropress. They are the winner of the NSAL AZ's High School Poetry Prize and the Garden Party Collective's Flyover States Contest. Their works have been recognized with nominations to Best Small Fictions, the Scholastic Young Writer's Award with two Gold Keys and one honorable mention, as well as the Davidson Fellowship. You can find their website at arushiaerarege.carrd.co.