Aaron Baker is the winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by Stanley Plumly and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Baker received his MFA at the University of Virginia. His work has been previously published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and Poetry, among other publications. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at Hollins University.