Doe
"Doe" began as author Aimée Baker's attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single unidentified woman whose body was thrown from a car leaving Phoenix, Arizona. It soon grew into a seven-year project with the goal to document, mourn and witness the stories of missing and unidentified women in the United States. "Doe" is the winner of the 2016 Akron Poetry Prize and is part of the Akron Series in Poetry.
Bio
Aimée Baker, a multigenre writer, earned her MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University in 2008. She was awarded the Zoland Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center in 2014. Baker teaches as a lecturer at SUNY Plattsburgh, where she also serves as fiction editor for Saranac Review.
Praise for this book
My choice for the award is 'Doe' — that book is so good, so well-executed with such difficult subject matter. I admire its active courage, its commitment to witnessing what so many reject. It stayed with me through reading all the others — fantastic books, the lot of them. But 'Doe' is a game changer, a silence eliminator.
Allison Joseph 2016 Akron Poetry Prize judge
