About

Aiden Arata is a writer and artist from Los Angeles.

Her writing has appeared in publications including BOMB, Mask, NYLON, The Rumpus, The Fanzine, Wonderland, Hobart, and others, as well as NDA: An Autofiction Anthology (Archways Editions 2022). She writes the monthly-ish newsletter, under the influence, about being extremely online during the heat death of the planet. Her first essay collection, YOU HAVE A NEW MEMORY, is out July 22nd 2025 from Grand Central Publishing.

Arata’s visual and video work has been featured on platforms including Vice, The Cut, Harper's Bazaar, Mashable, NBC, Seventeen, and The Washington Post. She’s shown in galleries across America and was a featured artist in Kunsthalle Bremen’s bicentennial exhibition Generation*. Jugend trotz(t) Krise.

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