Bio

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
is a poet, novelist, and filmmaker.

His debut novel, Trouble Finds You, was published by Fonograf
Editions (2023). He is also the author of nine books of poetry,
including Selenography, Swamp Isthmus, and Meadow Slasher.
His work has appeared in Poetry, The Believer, Tin House,
Pen America, and in nearly two dozen anthologies.

Wilkinson was a founding editor of Letter Machine Editions and The Volta,
which are now part of Fonograf Editions and The Hopkins Review
(Johns Hopkins University), respectively.

Wilkinson has edited five anthologies, including Anne Carson:
Ecstatic Lyre (University of Michigan Press 2015); Poets on Teaching
(University of Iowa Press 2010); and The Force of What's Possible
with Lily Hoang (Nightboat 2015).

A former editor of Sonora Review and Denver Quarterly,
he is currently a series editor, with Mark Levine and Lisa Wells,
of the Kuhl House Poets series for University of Iowa Press.

After growing up in Seattle, he graduated from film school in Ireland
and has taught in Italy, Turkey, Slovakia, and in MFA programs
in Chicago and Tucson. In 2019 he was the Mellon Writer-in-Residence
at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa.

With Solan Jensen, Wilkinson directed a tour film about the band Califone
and, with the late Noah Eli Gordon, he cowrote Figures for a Darkroom Voice.

He has given readings at the Pitchfork Music Festival, the Getty Museum
in Los Angeles, the Newport Folk Festival, and in Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin.

Currently, he lives with his family in Portland, Oregon,
where he works as a psychotherapist. A new book of poems,
Bad Woods--the final volume of his No Volta pentalogy--is forthcoming
one day from Sidebrow Books.

Contact: joshuamarie at gmail dot com.