Bio…

Aaron Banks is a poet born and raised in Rochester, NY, where he lives with his wife and daughters. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson in 2022 and works at the University of Rochester as an Academic Advisor for their McNair Scholars Program. He is seeking publication of his first poetry collection, Cottonwood Man, and is working on a new collection of poems and micro craft essays: Cottonwood Man II: The Art of Doing Nothing. He has poems published in Leaving Literary Magazine, Zocalo Public Square, and The Swannanoa Review.