The St. Lawrence University Writers Series welcomed poet Aimée Baker '04 via Zoom on Thursday, Sept. 16. The recording of the event is now available for viewing.
Baker's debut poetry collection, Doe, dramatizes the untold stories of missing and unidentified women across the United States and was selected as the winner of the 2016 Akron Prize. If you missed the Writers Series Zoom reading with Aimee Baker on Thursday, September 16, 2021, you may now view a recorded version of the event.
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After graduating with a degree in creative writing and history from St. Lawrence University in 2004, Aimée Baker earned her MFA from Arizona State University. Her debut poetry collection, Doe, dramatizes the untold stories of missing and unidentified women across the United States. Doe was selected by poet Allison Joseph as winner of the 2016 Akron Prize and subsequently published by the University of Akron Press. “I admire its active courage, its commitment to witnessing what so many reject,” wrote Joseph of Baker’s winning collection. “Doe is a game changer, a silence eliminator.” Doe also received the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize from Utica College. A documentary based on Doe is currently in development by Birdy & Bean Films. Baker’s fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, and Guernica. Her essay “Factory Girl” was listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2019. In 2014, she received the Zoland Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is a lecturer for SUNY Plattsburgh’s Professional Writing Certificate Program, where she also serves as the executive editor for Saranac Review.