Ari Banias

Ari Banias is an American poet whose work has been featured in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and POETRY.

Early life and education
Banias was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Chicago. 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. Anybody was nominated for the PEN American Literary Award.

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.

In 2022, he was the winner of the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for A Symmetry. The poem was also published in The New York Times.

Personal life
Banias lives in Berkeley, California.

Works

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