Ari Banias
American poet
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Ari Banias is an American poet whose work has been featured in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics,[1] American Poetry Review,[2] Boston Review,[3] and POETRY.[4]
Hunter College (MFA)
Ari Banias | |
|---|---|
| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Sarah Lawrence College (BA) Hunter College (MFA) |
| Awards | Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (2022) |
Early life and education
Banias was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Chicago.[5] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Hunter College.
Career
He published his first book of poetry, Anybody, in 2016.[6] Anybody was nominated for the PEN American Literary Award.[7]
Banias has received the fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Stanford University.[citation needed] He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.[8]
In 2022, he was the winner of the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for A Symmetry.[9] The poem was also published in The New York Times.[10]
Personal life
Banias lives in Berkeley, California.[11]
Works
- Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016)
- What's Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs)