Ariel Yelen is the author of I Was Working (Princeton University Press, 2024). She received a 2023-2024 Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Greece, as well as fellowships
/ grants from Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, The Yiddish Book Center, Art Farm & Arte Studio Ginestrelle. She's taught poetry and interdisciplinary courses for Columbia School of the Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers,
the School of Poetic Computation, New Museum, Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere. As a former editor for the NYC-based publishing collaborative Futurepoem Books, she founded
their digital space futurefeed.She studied sculpture & video at SUNY Purchase & poetry at Rutgers-Newark. She lives and works in New York City.