Malvika Jolly is the winner of the 2025 Alice James Award for her debut poetry collection Visiting Hours of the World, forthcoming March 2027 in the United States.

Her poems have been featured in Columbia Journal, Four Way Review, Mizna, Poetry Northwest, The Seventh Wave, and elsewhere, and performed on a diverse range of stages including The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Joe’s Pub, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Poetry Society of New York, Queens College, and South Street Seaport Museum.

Malvika is a graduate student at New York University, where she is the web editor of Washington Square Review and teaches in the undergraduate writing program. She runs the poetry reading series, The New Third World.

Previously, she programmed and produced events for the Brooklyn Rail, copyedited and fact-checked for Chicago magazine, and reported arts and culture for the South Side Weekly.