Mission Work

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.- A vibrant debut collection from the winner of the 2007 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize- In this prize-winning collection, the poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea- Foreword by Stanley PlumlyBaker, Aaron is the author of 'Mission Work', published 2008 under ISBN 9780618982677 and ISBN 0618982671.