Ari Banias
Ari Banias is an American poet.Personal life
Banias was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Chicago. He currently lives in Berkeley, CA.Career
Banias received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and his MFA in poetry from Hunter College.
He published his first book of poetry, Anybody, in 2016. Anybody was nominated for the PEN American Literary Award. Banias's work has been featured in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and POETRY.
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.Works
Anybody
What's Personal is Being Here With All of You
