Marcus Wicker

MARCUS WICKER, Poetry Editor of the Southern Indiana Review, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and The Fine Arts Work Center. His previous collection Maybe the Saddest Thing , a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in The Nation , Poetry , American Poetry Review , Oxford American, and Boston...See more

MARCUS WICKER, Poetry Editor of the Southern Indiana Review, is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and The Fine Arts Work Center. His previous collection Maybe the Saddest Thing , a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in The Nation , Poetry , American Poetry Review , Oxford American, and Boston Review. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee. See less