Aria Aber is the author of Hard Damage (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and a 2020 Whiting Award. Her recent poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and The New Republic. She lives in Oakland, California.
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