Kanika Ahuja is a poet and educator from New Delhi, India. The winner of Quarterly West's Inaugural Contest in Poetry and the AWP Intro Journals Project 2022, her work appears, or is forthcoming, at The Margins, Puerto Del Sol, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Lafayette, Indiana, where she's an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Purdue University.

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Self Portrait as a Rejected Idea for a Tinder Profile

By KANIKA AHUJA

I feel like it’s inevitable that I’ll date a ventriloquist...