Arina Kole is a writer and an educator with a background in Fine Arts and Film.
She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts. 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.
A recipient of the Denis Diderot Award, she was recently extended an honor to attend The Chateau d’Orquevaux, an international Artists & Writers residency in north-eastern France.
World-raised traveler, she is currently based in New York where she pursues her MFA in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and serves as the Creative Director for Lumina Magazine, and as the program’s Social Media and Events assistant.