Ari Banias

from The Real Me, an erasure of Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual Empire.

Ari Banias is a poet. Anybody, his first collection, was published in 2016, followed by the chapbook A Symmetry. Ari is the recipient of awards/fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, NYFA, the PSA, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others. Ari currently lives and teaches in the Bay Area.