Aria Aber(born 1991)[1]is an Americanpoetand writer based inLos Angeles, California.
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| Born | 1991 (age 32–33) Germany |
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| Nationality | American |
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Life
editAber was raised inGermany,where she was born toAfghanrefugees.[2]Her poems have appeared inThe New Yorker,The New Republic,andThe Kenyon Review.
Aber has received awards and fellowships fromKundiman,[3]the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing,[4]and theWhiting Foundation.[5]Aber was the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer atMills College.[6]She was formerly aStegner Fellowin Poetry atStanford University.[7]She is married to fellow writerNoah Warren;their wedding was officiated byLouise Glück,who was one of Aber's teachers at the Stegner Fellowship.[8][9]
Work and publications
editAber's first full-length collectionHard Damage,which won thePrairie SchoonerBook Prize in Poetry,was published in September 2019 byUniversity of Nebraska Press.[10]
In a review at theLos 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 atThe 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 toT.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
editPoetry
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.
- ^ab"Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile".The Yale Review.2020-02-03.Retrieved2020-05-19.
- ^"Fellows".Kundiman.Retrieved2020-05-19.
- ^"WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows".WI Institute for Creative Writing.Archived fromthe originalon 2014-01-06.Retrieved2020-05-19.
- ^"Aria Aber".www.whiting.org.Retrieved2020-05-19.
- ^"Contemporary Writers Series | San Francisco Bay Area | Mills College".www.mills.edu.Retrieved2020-05-22.
- ^"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.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2024-08-06.
- ^Aber, Aria (October 19, 2023)."Aria Aber Remembers Louise Glück".The Yale Review.Retrieved2024-11-11.
- ^"Book Page: Nebraska Press".www.nebraskapress.unl.edu.Retrieved2020-05-19.
- ^Schwartz, Claire (8 January 2020)."On Aria Aber's" Hard Damage "".Los Angeles Review of Books.Retrieved2020-05-19.
- ^Aber, Aria (2019-09-01).Hard Damage.U of Nebraska Press.ISBN978-1-4962-1895-7.
- ^"Good Girl by Aria Aber: 9780593731116 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books".PenguinRandomhouse.com.Retrieved2024-09-04.