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
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
Hunter College (MFA)
AwardsPublishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (2022)

Early life and education

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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

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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

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Banias lives in Berkeley, California.[11]

Works

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  • Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016)
  • What's Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs)

References

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  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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.