Aaron Shurin

The author of eleven books of poetry and prose, Aaron Shurin is a recipient of California Arts Council Literary Fellowships in poetry (1989, 2002), and fellowships from the NEA and San Francisco Arts Commission in creative nonfiction (1995, 2005). His publications include A’s Dream (1989), Into Distances (1993), The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems (1999), A Door (2000), Involuntary Lyrics (2005), and Citizen (2012), as well as two collections of essays, Unbound: A Book of AIDS (1997) and King of Shadows (2008).