Arda Collins is an Armenian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry. ^{[1] [2]}

Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. ^[3]

She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. ^{[4] [5]} She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. ^[6]

Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, ^[7] jubilat, ^[8] The American Poetry Review, ^[9] A Public Space ^[10] and Gutcult.

• 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
• 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences' (AAAS) Poetry Prize
• 2008 May Sarton Prize ^[11]

• Star Lake, New York : The Song Cave, 2022. ISBN  9781737277545
• It is daylight, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009. ISBN  9780300148879, OCLC  637375983