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 San Francisco, Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center Miami and Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (UK).

She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is at work on epistolary memoir centering politics of ethical non-monogamy and family cycles.

She serves as the Creative Director for Lumina Journal, and Social Media and Events assistant for the MFA.

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