Ari Banias Explained

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]

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. Book: Tolbert . TC . Troubling the line : trans and genderqueer poetry and poetics . Peterson . Trace . Callicoon . 2013 . 9781937658106 . New York . 839307399.
2. News: American Poetry Review - Ari Banias - "Villagers" . en . American Poetry Review . 2018-04-29.
3. Web site: Banias . Ari . 2016-03-23 . Continuity . 2018-04-29 . Boston Review . en.
4. Web site: 2018-04-29 . Poetry Magazine . A Symmetry by Ari Banias . 2018-04-29 . Poetry Foundation . en-us.
5. Web site: BIO – Ari Banias. www.aribanias.com. en-US. 2018-03-18.
6. Book: Ari, Banias . Anybody : poems. 2016 . 9780393247794 . 1st . New York . 937452485.
7. News: Anybody 's Game. The Smart Set. 2018-04-29. en-us.
8. Web site: jbmorris2 . 2017-04-11 . Ari Banias . 2022-07-09 . University of San Francisco . en.
9. https://www.thestar.com/life/2022/05/11/anthony-veasna-so-wins-posthumous-award-for-lgbtq-fiction.html "Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"
10. News: Gabbert . Elisa . 2022-01-25 . The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-09 . 0362-4331.
11. News: Jones . Tennessee . 2016-10-25 . Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation... . en-US . Lambda Literary . 2018-04-29.