ARIA ABER was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the U.S. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. She is a former Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and graduate student at the University of Southern California, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German, she writes in her third language, English. She is the poetry editor of Amulet, a contributing editor at The Yale Review, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Vermont. Her first novel, Good Girl (Hogarth, 2025), is being translated into nine languages and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and the New Adult Prize, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction Debut Prize. She divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn, New York.