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), among other titles, and the translator of Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo (University of Chicago Press, 2024), short-listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. 

The recipient of support from Cave Canem and the National Endowment for the Arts, Coleman is the postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies at the University of Michigan.