About the author

Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in 2019. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, an NYU MFA in Creative Writing, and a Ron Wallace Poetry fellowship. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. She serves as the poetry editor of Kismet, as a contributing editor at The Yale Review, and works as an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Aber divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn.

Her first novel GOOD GIRL was published with Hogarth (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in 2025, and is being translated into 9 languages. GOOD GIRL was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize in Fiction, the New Adult Prize, the Edmund B. White Award, the Book Prize at Wortspiele Munich, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Center for Fiction’s Debut Prize. GOOD GIRL was selected as an Indie Next Pick, a TIME Best Book of the Year, an Indie Book of the Month, a Top Ten Fiction Book and Crossword Book of the Month in India, an Amazon Prime Pick, a Spotify Best Audiobook, a Best Debut at Leipziger Buchmesse, and was featured on Belletrist, Service95, Vogue, and many other places.

Her second poetry collection, Melencolia I, will be published by Hogarth and Bloomsbury.

Aber is represented by Bill Clegg at The Clegg Agency.

For publicity regarding Good Girl, please reach out to Erin Richards at Random House.

For events and readings, please contact Leslie Shipman at the Shipman Agency.