Arto Vaun is a musician & poet originally from Boston. He has shared bills (first as Mishima USA) with artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Daniel Johnston, Ben Kweller, Kimya Dawson, Mark Eitzel, & the War on Drugs. His new album, Stuck Inside a Map, is out this summer (2024).
Vaun’s book-length poem, Capillarity, was published by Carcanet in 2009. His poems & essays have appeared in various journals & outlets.
In another life that he’s happy to have escaped, he was a professor of creative writing & literature.
He has lived in Glasgow, Berlin, Los Angeles, Beirut, & Yerevan, & spent a chunk of his childhood in Virginia.
When he’s not making songs & poems, he’s the executive director of Project Save Photograph Archive in Boston.
Contact: arto.vaun(AT)gmail(DOT)com