Ari Ketzal grew up in several rural Alabama towns and lives in Greater Boston. Their work has been notable in The Best American Essays and a fiction semifinalist for the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown. They were honored as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a 2026 Mass Cultural Council grant recipient. Their words have appeared in Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, West Trade Review, Creative Nonfiction’s “Sunday Short Reads,” and elsewhere.
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Ari Ketzal 