Aaron Coleman

Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the author of Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2025) and the translator of Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Coleman’s other poetry collections include Threat Come Close (Four Way Book, 2018), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award, and St. Trigger (Button, 2016), selected by Adrian Matejka for the Button Poetry Chapbook Prize. A Fulbright Scholar from Metro-Detroit, Coleman is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Literary Translators Association, and Cave Canem. His poems and essays have appeared in publications including Boston Review, Callaloo, and The New York Times. Aaron is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.