Arielle Kaplan is a poet and educator from Philadelphia. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Plume, Rust & Moth, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been supported by the Community of Writers, Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Arielle holds an MFA from Boston University, where she was the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. She also holds an MA in Education from Tufts University and a BA in English (with a Creative Writing concentration) from Oberlin College. A member of the editorial team at AGNI, she currently serves as Assistant Director of the Writing Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston and teaches writing in the Boston area.