Visiting Writers Series: Ari Banias

Ari Banias’ collection of poems, Anybody, was published by W.W. Norton and named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. He is the author of the chapbook, What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You. His poems appear in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, POETRY, A Public Space, The Volta, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and as part of the MOTHA exhibition Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program.