Ariel Yelen is the author of I Was Working (Fall 2024), selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. 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 Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers New Brunswick,
The Loft Literary Center, & Mana Contemporary. 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.