Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming in July 2021.
Born in India, she grew up across the Middle East, Europe and North America, before calling Ireland home. She is the founder of the P[l]ay It Forward Fellowships, and co-editor of a forthcoming anthology with The Ireland Chair of Poetry (UCD Press, 2020 | UChicago Press, 2021).
Her poems are widely published or forthcoming, most recently in Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, The Irish Times, Irish University Review, The Stinging Fly, and Winter Papers; anthologised in Writing Home: The New Irish Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019), Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2020), P L A G U E P O E M S (The Salvage Press, 2020), and Empty House (Doire Press, 2021); broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Poetry Programme, Pantisocracy, RadioMoLI, and Poetry Ireland podcasts; hosted in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive; and featured in interactive installations such as Raining Poetry and Poetry Jukebox across Dublin, Belfast and Paris.