Aaron Coleman

Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright Program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection, Threat Come Close , was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and his chapbook, St. Trigger , won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicola s Guille n's...See more

Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright Program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection, Threat Come Close , was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and his chapbook, St. Trigger , won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicola s Guille n's 1967 collection, The Great Zoo , selected for the Phoenix Poet Series by University of Chicago Press. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times , Boston Review , Callaloo , and Poetry Magazine . From Metro-Detroit, Coleman has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain, South Africa, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kalamazoo. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. See less