Joshua Marie Wilkinson

He was born on December 2, 1977, and raised in Haller Lake neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. His given name is Joshua Wilson; his grandmother's name was Marie Wilkinson, after whom he writes and publishes. He earned degrees in Poetry (M.F.A., University of Arizona), Film (M.A., University College Dublin), and English (PhD, University of Denver). He has also edited five anthologies and directed a tour documentary of the band Califone with Solan Jensen released in 2011 by IndiePix. His work appeared at PEN Poetry Series, Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, Boston Review, and Bomb. His writing has also been featured in many anthologies including both Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover and Language Lessons: Vol. 1 from Jack White's Third Man Records, which was featured in Rolling Stone, Spin, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He currently teaches creative writing at University of Arizona and is a founding editor of the online literary journal of poetry and poetics 1=The Volta. and a founding editor of the small press Letter Machine Editions, which has been honored by the National Book Award Foundation. He is married to the writer Lisa Wells.

• Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, University of Michigan Press, 2015, • The Volta Book of Poets, Sidebrow Books, 2015, • The Force of What's Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde, with Lily Hoang, Nightboat Books, 2015, • Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook, University of Iowa Press, 2010, • 12x12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics, with Christina Mengert, University of Iowa Press, 2009,

• A Little Slash at the Meadow, Above/Ground Press, 2013 • In the Trade of Alive Letters Mis-sent, Brave Men Press, 2011 • I go by Edgar Huntly now, DoubleCross Press, 2009 • Until the Lantern's Shaky Song: poems for my friends, Cinematheque Press, 2009 • Cold Faction, Further Adventures Press, 2009 • The Book of Flashlights, Clover, & Milk (Pilot Books, 2008) • The Book of Truants & Projectorlight (Octopus Books, 2006) • A Ghost as King of the Rabbits (New Michigan Press, 2005)