Darshita Jain (she/her)

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Darshita Jain is a Chicago-based poet, art critic, an arts administrator and a voracious consumer of content, matched only by her need to critically converse about the said content. Her work takes the shape of exhibition direction, art journalism, writing, performance, and non-profit arts administration.
Darshita is a Board Member at the Chicago Poetry Center and the co-founder of Povera, one of the first spoken word poetry collectives in Gujarat, India. She has written for Sixty Inches from Center, Chicago Reader, Newcity, The Adroit Journal, Arts Letters and Numbers and was one of the founding Literary editors for SAIC’s Fnews Magazine, Chicago.