Aria Aber

Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her debut book, the poetry collection Hard Damage (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her first novel GOOD GIRL is forthcoming from Hogarth (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in 2025