Aaron Baker is the author of two award-winning collections of poems: Posthumous Noon (Gunpowder Press, 2018), which was selected by Jane Hirshfield as winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize; and Mission Work (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), which won the Katherine Bakeless Prize in Poetry and the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Recipient of many awards, including the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he is currently an associate professor in the creative writing program at Loyola University Chicago.