Ari Banias

Ari Banias is the author of A Symmetry (W.W. Norton, 2021) and Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016), which was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His work has been supported by fellowships from Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, 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. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Hyperallergic, Georgia Review, The Nation, The New Republic, A Public Space, and elsewhere. Ari lives in the Bay Area where he also teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.