He published his first book of poetry,
Anybody, in 2016.
Anybody was nominated for the PEN American Literary Award. Banias has received the fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the
New York Foundation for the Arts, the
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Stanford University. He is an adjunct professor at the
University of San Francisco. In 2022, he was the winner of the
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for
A Symmetry. The poem was also published in
The New York Times. == Personal life ==