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Aria Aber’s first book, Hard Damage (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a Whiting Award. Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, New Republic, and elsewhere. She was a 2020-2022 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, and is a PhD student at the University of Southern California.