Ari Banias

Ari Banias was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Chicago area. He received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Hunter College.

Banias is the author of A Symmetry (W. W. Norton, 2023), winner of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature, and Anybody (W. W. Norton, 2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award.

Banias has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Stanford University, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. 

Banias served as the Guest Editor for Poem-a-Day from June 1–June 8, 2020 and October 14–October 30, 2020. He lives in Western Massachusetts on unceded Nipmuc, Nonotuck, and Pocomtuc lands.