Aria Aber

Aria Aber (born 1991)[1] is an American poet and writer based in Los Angeles, California.

Aber has received awards and fellowships from Kundiman,[3] the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing,[4] and the Whiting Foundation.

[7] She is married to fellow writer Noah Warren; their wedding was officiated by Louise Glück, who was one of Aber's teachers at the Stegner Fellowship.

[10] 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.

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