Arina Kole is a nonfiction writer and an educator with a background in Fine Arts and Film.

A recipient of the Denis Diderot Award, she was extended an honor to attend The Chateau d’Orquevaux, an international Artists & Writers residency in north-eastern France.

Her work has been featured in digital collection Looking Back, Looking Forward: Art in Response to Covid-19; Minnesota Street Project, and Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature.

She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and serving as the Creative Director for Lumina Journal, and Social Media and Events assistant for the MFA, and Associate Editor for Big Score Lit.

North Caucasus-born, world-raised traveler, she is currently based in Brooklyn, where she hosts a monthly rooftop reading series Surviving New York.

You can follow along, or find out how to join the next one, on her Instagram!