Aria Aber (born 1991) [1] is a poet and writer based in Los Angeles, California.
Life
Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. [2] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, 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]
Work and publications
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. [8]
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." [9]
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]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Hard Damage (2019) [10]
References
- ^ Cox, Sarah (27 March 2020). "$50,000 literary award for Goldsmiths graduate". Goldsmiths, University of London.
- ^ a b "Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile". The Yale Review. 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Aria Aber". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Contemporary Writers Series | San Francisco Bay Area | Mills College". www.mills.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
- ^ "Stegner Fellows 2020-2022 | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu.
- ^ "Book Page : Nebraska Press". www.nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Schwartz, Claire (8 January 2020). "On Aria Aber's "Hard Damage"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Aber, Aria (2019-09-01). Hard Damage. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-1895-7.
External links
- Living people
- Writers from Oakland, California
- American writers of Afghan descent
- 1991 births
- Stegner Fellows
- German women poets
- American women poets
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century German poets
- 21st-century German women writers
- German emigrants to the United States
- The New Yorker people
Aria Aber (born 1991) [1] is a poet and writer based in Los Angeles, California.
Life
Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. [2] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, 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]
Work and publications
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. [8]
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." [9]
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]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Hard Damage (2019) [10]
References
- ^ Cox, Sarah (27 March 2020). "$50,000 literary award for Goldsmiths graduate". Goldsmiths, University of London.
- ^ a b "Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile". The Yale Review. 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Aria Aber". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "Contemporary Writers Series | San Francisco Bay Area | Mills College". www.mills.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
- ^ "Stegner Fellows 2020-2022 | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu.
- ^ "Book Page : Nebraska Press". www.nebraskapress.unl.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Schwartz, Claire (8 January 2020). "On Aria Aber's "Hard Damage"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ Aber, Aria (2019-09-01). Hard Damage. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-1895-7.
External links
- Living people
- Writers from Oakland, California
- American writers of Afghan descent
- 1991 births
- Stegner Fellows
- German women poets
- American women poets
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century German poets
- 21st-century German women writers
- German emigrants to the United States
- The New Yorker people