Aria Aber

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Aria Aber
Aria Aber 2020.jpg
Aber in 2020
Born1991 (age 33–34)
Münster, Germany
Occupation
  • Poet
  • writer
Education
Spouse Noah Warren
Website
www.ariaaber.com

Aria Aber (born 1991) [1] is a German-born poet and writer based in the United States.

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Early life

Aber was born and raised in Münster, [2] Germany to Afghan refugees. [3] Aber moved to London in 2011 and graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English literature. She later completed a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Poetry at New York University. [1]

Career

Aber's poems have appeared in The New Yorker , The New Republic , and The Kenyon Review .

Aber has received awards and fellowships from Kundiman, [4] the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, [5] and the Whiting Foundation. [6] Aber was the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. [7] She was formerly a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. [8]

Aber is a faculty member of the University of Vermont as an assistant professor of Creative Writing and resides between Vermont and Brooklyn. [9]

Hard Damage

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." [3]

Good Girl

Via Hogarth Press, Aber's debut fiction novel Good Girl was published in 2024. The novel follows a young German-Afghan woman in Berlin's party scene. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

Personal life

Aber is married to Canadian-American writer Noah Warren; their wedding was officiated by Louise Glück, who was one of Aber's teachers at the Stegner Fellowship. [17] [18]

Bibliography

Poetry

Fiction

References

  1. 1 2 Cox, Sarah (27 March 2020). "$50,000 literary award for Goldsmiths graduate". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  2. ↑ "Poet: Aria Aber". Brooklyn Poets. 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile". The Yale Review. 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  4. ↑ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  5. ↑ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  6. ↑ "Aria Aber". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  7. ↑ "Contemporary Writers Series | San Francisco Bay Area | Mills College". www.mills.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  8. ↑ "Stegner Fellows 2020-2022 | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu.
  9. ↑ "Aria Aber | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  10. ↑ "Book Page : Nebraska Press". www.nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  11. ↑ Schwartz, Claire (8 January 2020). "On Aria Aber's "Hard Damage"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  12. ↑ "Good Girl by Aria Aber: 9780593731116 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  13. ↑ Specter, Emma (2025-01-16). "Displacement, Disenchantment, and Partying at the End of the World: Aria Aber Discusses Her Debut Novel, 'Good Girl'". Vogue. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  14. ↑ Kwon, R.O. (2025-01-13). "Book Review: 'Good Girl,' by Aria Aber". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  15. ↑ Nevins, Jake (2025-01-15). "Aria Aber on Age Gaps, Cheap Thrills, and Her Debut Novel "Good Girl"". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  16. ↑ "Are We Human? Or Are We Good Girls?". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  17. ↑ Otis, John (2023-08-18). "A Walk Around the Lake During the Pandemic Was Poetry to Their Ears". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  18. ↑ Aber, Aria (October 19, 2023). "Aria Aber Remembers Louise Glück". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  19. ↑ Aber, Aria (2019-09-01). Hard Damage. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN   978-1-4962-1895-7.
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