Born in Massachusetts, Jonathan Aaron graduated from the University of Chicago and earned a PhD from Yale University. He is the author of three collections: Second Sight (Harper & Row, 1982), Corridor (Wesleyan University Press, 1992), and Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The London Review of Books, and in several editions of Best American Poetry. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship, and taught for decades at Emerson College, where he is professor emeritus.
