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A poet, editor, teacher, and fiction writer, Arah Ko is the author of BRINE ORCHID (YesYes Books 2025) and ANIMAL LOGIC (Bull City Press 2026) and has work published or forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, Colorado Review, The Threepenny Review, Quarterly West, Waxwing, and elsewhere. She is a four-time Best New Poets nominee and has been nominated for Best of Net. She was awarded an Academy of American Poets Arthur Rense Prize, a Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Poetry, and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize.

Arah hails from Hawai'i. She is a Ph.D. student at The University of Cincinnati. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University in Columbus where she served on the staff of The Journal. A graduate of the Wheaton College English Honors program, Arah served as Editor-in-Chief for KODON, the college's septuagenarian literary magazine and winner of the 2017 AWP National Director's Prize for Design. She was the 2018 Luci Shaw Fellow for Image in Seattle, WA. She is a current Lilly Graduate Fellow. Arah currently serves as a Managing Editor for Surging Tide Magazine.