Ari Banias is the author of the chapbook What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Subtropics, DIAGRAM, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from NYFA, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he is co-winner of the 2012 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and is the 2012-13 Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing in Madison.