nanya jhingran is a poet, scholar & teacher from Lucknow, India currently living by the coastal margin of the Salish Sea, on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish People (upon which the city of Seattle was built). 

She serves as an Associate Editor at Poetry Northwest where she edits the book reviews section, reads poetry submissions, and pitches in with other editorial tasks. She also organizes the “Critics at Large” program, a paid yearlong cultural criticism residency for emerging poet-critics which announces its inaugural cohort in Summer 2022.

She is currently a PhD Candidate and MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Washington, Seattle.