Aria Aber

Aria Aber is an Afghan-German-American poet and novelist born in 1991. She grew up partly in Germany. Her debut poetry collection Hard Damage (2019) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her debut novel Good Girl (2024) was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025. Aber is an assistant professor of creative writing and a contributing editor at the Kenyon Review.