As Library Specialist, Aria Pahari serves as the Poetry Center’s first point of contact for the public and assists with daily operations at the Poetry Center Library. 

Aria received her MFA at the University of Arizona and began working with the Poetry Center as a student volunteer. Her teaching, writing, and editing experiences include a Kenyon Young Writers Workshop Teaching Fellowship, residencies from Monson Arts and the Hambidge Center, and a poetry editorship at Sonora Review. Her poems can be found in The Georgia Review, The Margins, Inverted Syntax, and Waxwing.