Ari Banias

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]

Ari Banias
Born
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
Hunter College (MFA)
AwardsPublishing 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. 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)

References
  1. Tolbert, TC; Peterson, Trace (2013). Troubling the line : trans and genderqueer poetry and poetics. New York: Callicoon. ISBN 9781937658106. OCLC 839307399.
  2. "American Poetry Review - Ari Banias - "Villagers"". American Poetry Review. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. Banias, Ari (2016-03-23). "Continuity". Boston Review. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. "A Symmetry by Ari Banias". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. "BIO – Ari Banias". www.aribanias.com. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  6. Ari, Banias (2016). Anybody : poems (1st ed.). New York. ISBN 9780393247794. OCLC 937452485.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. "Anybody 's Game". The Smart Set. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  8. jbmorris2 (2017-04-11). "Ari Banias". University of San Francisco. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
  9. "Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction". Toronto Star, May 11, 2022.
  10. Gabbert, Elisa (2022-01-25). "The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
  11. Jones, Tennessee (2016-10-25). "Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation..." Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
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