Aaron Coleman

Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African diaspora from Detroit. He is the author of Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2025). His debut poetry collection, Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018), was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. His chapbook, St. Trigger (Button, 2016), won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s 1967 collection, The Great Zoo (University of Chicago Press, 2024), selected for the Phoenix Poets Series and short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Coleman is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright Program, and the American Literary Translators Association. He is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.