{"id":1394,"date":"2021-07-14T17:38:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1394"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:11:50","slug":"aurora-masum-javed","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/aurora-masum-javed\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Masum-Javed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Masum-Javed is a poet and educator.\u00a0A former public school teacher, she holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught courses in creative non-fiction,\u00a0short story, poetry, and composition. Her work can be found in various journals including Nimrod, Black Warrior Review, Aster(ix), Winter Tangerine, and Frontier. She has received fellowships from places such as the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Kundiman, and Callaloo among others. A recent Philip Roth Resident and Hub City Writer in Residence, she is currently working on her first collection of poems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contemporary Poetry &amp; Poetics<\/li>\n<li>Personal Essay<\/li>\n<li>Short Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spring 2026 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ENGL 150-06 Introduction to Creative Writing<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1396,"template":"","class_list":["post-1394","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1394\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}