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Aria Aber (born 1991) [1] is an American poet and writer based in Los Angeles, California.
Aria Aber | |
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| Born | 1991 (age 32–33) Germany |
| Occupation |
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| Nationality | American |
| Website | |
| www | |
Aria Aber (born 1991) [1] is an American poet and writer based in Los Angeles, California.
Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. [2] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker , The New Republic , and The Kenyon Review .
Aber has received awards and fellowships from Kundiman, [3] the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, [4] and the Whiting Foundation. [5] Aber was the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. [6] She was formerly a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. [7] She is married to fellow writer Noah Warren; their wedding was officiated by Louise Glück, who was one of Aber's teachers at the Stegner Fellowship. [8] [9]
Aber's first full-length collection Hard Damage, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, was published in September 2019 by University of Nebraska Press. [10]
In a review at the Los 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 at The 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 to T.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]
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