Poet Aaron Baker is an associate professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches Creative Writing.

Baker’s first collection Mission Work, published in 2008, won the Katherine Bakeless Award for a First Book of Poetry and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers.

Baker’s second poetry collection Posthumous Noon, published in 2018, won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.

Baker gave a reading at the University of Oregon on February 14th, 2024 as a guest of the Creative Writing Program.