{{short description|American poet|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Ari Banias | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | education = Sarah Lawrence College (BA)<br>Hunter College (MFA) | awards = Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (2022) }}
'''Ari Banias''' is an American poet whose work has been featured in ''Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics'',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tolbert |first1=TC |title=Troubling the line : trans and genderqueer poetry and poetics |last2=Peterson |first2=Trace |publisher=Callicoon |year=2013 |isbn=9781937658106 |location=New York |oclc=839307399}}</ref> ''American Poetry Review'',<ref>{{Cite news |title=American Poetry Review - Ari Banias - "Villagers" |language=en |work=American Poetry Review |url=https://aprweb.org/poems/villagers |access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> ''Boston Review'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Banias |first=Ari |date=2016-03-23 |title=Continuity |url=http://bostonreview.net/poetry/NPM-2016-ari-banias-continuity |access-date=2018-04-29 |website=Boston Review |language=en}}</ref> and ''POETRY.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-04-29 |others=Poetry Magazine |title=A Symmetry by Ari Banias |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/145174/a-symmetry |access-date=2018-04-29 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en-us}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Banias was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aribanias.com/bio/|title=BIO – Ari Banias|website=www.aribanias.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-18}}</ref> He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Hunter College.
== Career == He published his first book of poetry, ''Anybody,'' in 2016.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anybody : poems|last=Ari |first=Banias |year=2016 |isbn=9780393247794 |edition=1st |location=New York |oclc=937452485}}</ref> ''Anybody'' was nominated for the PEN American Literary Award.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thesmartset.com/anybody-s-game/|title=''Anybody'' 's Game|work=The Smart Set|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-us}}</ref>
Banias has received the fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Stanford University.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite web |last=jbmorris2 |date=2017-04-11 |title=Ari Banias |url=https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/ari-banias |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=University of San Francisco |language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, he was the winner of the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for ''A Symmetry''.<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/life/2022/05/11/anthony-veasna-so-wins-posthumous-award-for-lgbtq-fiction.html "Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"]. ''Toronto Star'', May 11, 2022.</ref> The poem was also published in ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gabbert |first=Elisa |date=2022-01-25 |title=The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/books/review/elisa-gabbert-lyric-decision-poetry.html |access-date=2022-07-09 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Personal life == Banias lives in Berkeley, California.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Tennessee |date=2016-10-25 |title=Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation... |language=en-US |work=Lambda Literary |url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/interviews/10/24/ari-banias-on-his-new-poetry-collection-and-trans-representation-in-the-larger-culture/ |access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref>
== Works ==
* ''Anybody'' (W.W. Norton, 2016) * ''What's Personal is Being Here With All of You'' (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs)
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