Ari Banias
Author · 3 books
Ari Banias was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, where he was a teaching fellow. He’s the author of a chapbook, What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2012), and his poems have appeared in various publications, including Aufgabe, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, The Volta, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat, 2013). The recipient of the 2014 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, he has been awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is a 2014-16 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His first collection of poems is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2016.
