Aria Aber

Aria Aber
Born	1991 (age 32–33) Germany
Occupation	Poet writer
Nationality	American
Website
www.ariaaber.com

Aria Aber(born 1991)is an Americanpoetand writer based inLos Angeles, California.

Life

Aber was raised inGermany,where she was born toAfghanrefugees.Her poems have appeared inThe New Yorker,The New Republic,andThe Kenyon Review.

Aber has received awards and fellowships fromKundiman,the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing,and theWhiting Foundation.Aber was the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer atMills College.She was formerly aStegner Fellowin Poetry atStanford University.

Work and publications

Aber's first full-length collectionHard Damage,which won thePrairie SchoonerBook Prize in Poetry,was published in September 2019 byUniversity of Nebraska Press.

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."

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. "

Bibliography

Poetry

• Hard Damage(2019)

External links

• Official website
• Pádraig Ó Tuama reads & discusses Aria Aber’s poemThe Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine