Trigger, won the 2015 Button Poetry Prize, and whose first full-length collection is titled, Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018). A Cave Canem Fellow and Fulbright Scholar from Metro-Detroit, Aaron has lived and worked with youth in locations including Kalamazoo, Chicago, St. Louis, Spain, and South Africa. Winner of the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest, The Cincinnati Review Schiff Award, and the American Literary Translator Association’s Jansen Memorial Fellowship, Aaron’s poems have appeared in Apogee, Boston Review, Fence, New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. He is currently at Washington University in St. Louis as a PhD student in the Comparative Literature program’s International Writers Track.