Discipline: Poetry
Based In: Berkeley, CA
Year at Millay: 2011
Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature, The Publishing Triangle Award, New York, NY (2022); Artist-in-Residence, Affiliate Artist Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2020–2022); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2019); Fellow, FAWC Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (2011–2012); Fellow, Poetry, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2011).
Website: https://www.aribanias.com/
Ari Banias is the author of A Symmetry, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature, and Anybody, both from W. W. Norton. His work has been supported by residencies and fellowships including MacDowell, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, Triple Canopy, The Nation, Georgia Review, The New Republic, Hyperallergic, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.