Arda Collins is an Armenian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.
[1][2] Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
[4][5] She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College.
[6] Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker,[7] jubilat,[8] The American Poetry Review,[9] A Public Space[10] and Gutcult.