Aaron Baker
Assistant Professor
English Department
Lynchburg College
434/544-8268
Baker.A@lynchburg.edu
Experience
Before coming to Lynchburg College, I spent two years as a visiting assistant professor in the creative writing program at Hollins University. I've taught English at James Madison University, Rutgers University, the Pratt Institute, Baruch College, and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Culiacán, Mexico. I've also held teaching assistantships at Central Washington University, the University of Virginia, and Stanford University.
Education
Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Poetry), Stanford University
M.F.A., Poetry, University of Virginia
B.A. and M.A., English, Central Washington University
Book (Poetry)
Mission Work, Houghton Mifflin 2008
Selected Work in Periodicals/Anthologies
Poems in The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry, ed. Jay Hopler, Yale University
Press (forthcoming)
"The Lost Village," "The New Religion," Shenandoah (forthcoming)
"The Zero in the Branches." Poetry Northwest
"Commission." Virginia Quarterly Review
"On Kumaniembu" and "Spirits of the Low Ground." New England Review
"Notebook" and "Bones." Post Road
"Highlands Mission" and "Chimbu Wedding." Poetry
Selected Essays and Reviews
Review of Rick Hilles' Brother Salvage. The Southern Review
Review of Alex Lemon's Mosquito. The Southern Review
"Poetry's Embedded Soldier: Brian Turner's Here, Bullet." The Contemporary Poetry
Review
"The Strangeness of James Dickey." The Contemporary Poetry Review
"Passing Facts: A Review of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems." The Contemporary Poetry
Review
Main Teaching Interests
Writing (Poetry, Fiction, and Non-Fiction); Poetry and Poetics; Major Romantic Writers; Contemporary Poetry; Detective Fiction; American Literature; Apocalyptic Literature; Composition.
Awards
2009 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers
2008 Katherine Bakeless Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
2008 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference
2007 Katherine Bakeless Award for a First Book of Poetry
2007 Lugwig Vogelstein Literary Fellowship for Poetry
2006 John Ciardi Scholarship at the Bread Load Writers' Conference
2006 Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2005 Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2002 Work-Study Scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
2001-2003 Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, Stanford University
1999-2001 Henry Hoyns Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of Virginia