Ariana Benson

Ariana Benson is a Black Southern ecopoet. Their debut collection, Black Pastoral (UGA Press, 2023), won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, Benson also received the 2022 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.