Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage,won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize and a Whiting Award. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and graduate student at the University of Southern California, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, TheNew Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German, she writes in her third language, English. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Vermont as an assistant professor of creative writing, and she divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the novel Good Girl (Hogarth, 2025), which will be translated into six languages.
