Aria Aber, an award-winning poet with a new debut novel, was originally scheduled to be doing a poetry and novel reading Feb. 20, but the event has been postponed. New details are forthcoming.
Aber was the Prairie Schooner Book Prize winner in poetry for her debut poetry book "Hard Damage" in 2018, as well as a 2020 Whiting award. She was recently profiled in Vogue, and has a poem in the current issue of the New Yorker. Her debut novel “Good Girl” was just released by Hogarth (U.S.) and Bloomsbury (U.K.), and will be translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Japanese.
Aber grew up in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing program, where she was a Writers in Public Schools fellow, Aber holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
Aber is also a contributing editor at The Yale Review and an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Vermont.
