Aria Aber
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| Born | 1991 (age 32–33) Germany |
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| Nationality | American |
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Aria Aber (born 1991)[1] is an American poet and writer based in Los Angeles, California.
Life
[edit]Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees.[2] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Kenyon Review.
Aber has received awards and fellowships from Kundiman,[3] the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing,[4] and the Whiting Foundation.[5] Aber was the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College.[6] She was formerly a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.[7] She is married to fellow writer Noah Warren; their wedding was officiated by Louise Glück, who was one of Aber's teachers at the Stegner Fellowship.[8][9]
Work and publications
[edit]Aber's first full-length collection Hard Damage, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, was published in September 2019 by University of Nebraska Press.[10]
In a review at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Claire Schwartz wrote, "Hard Damage—which elaborates a constellation of beauty and terror between Afghanistan, Germany, and the United States—is vexed by the meanings of bringing across."[11]
In an interview at The Yale Review, Aber has stated, "Especially the English language is political, because it has operated as a colonizing force in many places around the world, and changed global indigenous languages forever, if not completely eradicated them. If poetry is “the soul of a nation” (this quote is attributed to T.S. Eliot, though I cannot fact-check the source), and our nation is an empire actively participating in displacement and warfare, it feels only natural to me that these topics surface in poetry."[2]
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Hard Damage (2019)[12]
Fiction
[edit]- Good Girl (2025)[13]
References
[edit]- ^ Cox, Sarah (27 March 2020). "$50,000 literary award for Goldsmiths graduate". Goldsmiths, University of London.
- ^ a b "Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile". The Yale Review. 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Aria Aber". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Contemporary Writers Series | San Francisco Bay Area | Mills College". www.mills.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
- ^ "Stegner Fellows 2020-2022 | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu.
- ^ Otis, John (2023-08-18). "A Walk Around the Lake During the Pandemic Was Poetry to Their Ears". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ Aber, Aria (October 19, 2023). "Aria Aber Remembers Louise Glück". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
- ^ "Book Page : Nebraska Press". www.nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Schwartz, Claire (8 January 2020). "On Aria Aber's "Hard Damage"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Aber, Aria (2019-09-01). Hard Damage. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-1895-7.
- ^ "Good Girl by Aria Aber: 9780593731116 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-09-04.