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AIDAN FORSTER
Aidan is a poet and teacher from Greenville, South Carolina. They graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. At Brown, they won numerous Literary Arts prizes and served as a Social Science and Humanities Presidential Scholar. They are the author of the chapbook Exit Pastoral (YesYes Books, 2019) and their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Lambda Literary, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Tin House, and Washington Square Review, among others.
As a teen writer, they received 7 Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Fiction, as well as a Best in Grade Award for Poetry and a nomination for the National Student Poet designation. They were also a 2018 National YoungArts Foundation Winner with Distinction in Creative Nonfiction and Winner in Poetry. As a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Aidan performed their poetry at the Kennedy Center and received the inaugural Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award. They’ve been recognized by the Adroit Journal’s Adroit Prizes and Djanikian Scholars opportunities, the Poetry Society of America, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards, Copper Nickel, Bennington Young Writers Awards, Princeton University’s Leonard Milberg Prize, and more.
Aidan has worked as an associate editor for Sibling Rivalry Press, as a poetry staff reader and poetry mentor for the Adroit Journal, and as a poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine. High school writers who have worked with Aidan have achieved recognition through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and more. Aidan has taught for five consecutive summers at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities’ creative writing programs, and (when they aren’t working on their next manuscript!) they work as a Specialty Patient Innovation Analyst for CVS Health.
Pronouns • they/them/theirs.
Select work by Aidan available online
Exit Pastoral, YesYes Books
Mink Portrait as Seasonal Threat-Gape, Bennington Review
The Husband Machine, Copper Nickel
Three Poems, The Adroit Journal