Marcus Wicker

Marcus Wicker is the author of three books of poetry: Dear Mothership (2026), Silencer (2017), and Maybe the Saddest Thing (2012), selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. His honors include a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Cave Canem. Wicker’s poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Oxford American, and POETRY. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.