Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was published with Faber in 2021. A finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Butler Literary Award, it was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a Book of the Year by both The Irish Times and The Irish Independent.

Nidhi is the commissioning editor at Skein Press, poetry editor at Fallow Media, and contributing editor at The Stinging Fly. A Next Generation Artist with the Arts Council of Ireland, she serves as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee to Culture Ireland and the Board of the Dublin Book Festival. In 2021, she founded the Play It Forward Fellowships for underrepresented writers. In 2023, she was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and as guest editor of the national poetry journal Poetry Ireland Review. In 2024, she was selected as the Literature Ireland Artist-in-Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, and the Commissioned Writer at Temple Bar Art Gallery + Studios in Dublin. She is a judge for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

Nidhi has been commissioned to create work in celebration of UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature, Ulysses 100, Lá Fhéile Pádraig/St Patrick’s Day, Lá Fhéile Bríde/St Brigid’s Day, RTÉ’s Illuminations, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, and the Rio 2016 Olympic Truce. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies including Banshee, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri, Windfall, Winter Papers and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, broadcast on BBC Radio London, RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena, Sunday Miscellany and The Poetry Programme, Pantisocracy, RadioMoLI and Poetry Ireland podcasts and featured on the Poetry Jukebox across Belfast, Dublin and Paris. She is the co-editor of Hold Open The Door, a special commemorative anthology from The Ireland Chair of Poetry (UCD Press, 2020 | UChicago Press, 2021).

A Global Peace Ambassador with the Institute for Economics & Peace, she has formerly been honoured as a Davis United World College Scholar, Davis Nuclear Nonproliferation Studies Fellow, and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Peace & Conflict Fellow. She earned a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic, MA in Eastern Classics from The Graduate Institute at St. John’s College, and MFA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin where she was a recipient of the inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. She lives along the eastern coasts of Ireland, the Blue Hill Peninsula, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Nidhi is represented by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander Associates.

With deep gratitude for the generous support of The Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.