L. Lamar Wilson

Sacrilegion (2013), L. Lamar Wilson's first book, was selected by Lee Ann Brown as the 2012 winner of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series and was also a finalist for the Thom Gunn Poetry Award; Prime (Sibling Rivalry Press), a collection of poems and interviews with the Phantastique Five, was published this summer. Wilson's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals and anthologies as Callaloo, jubilat, The Los Angeles Review, Rattle, The 100 Best African American Poems, and Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation. A Pushcart Prize nominee and Cave Canem graduate fellow, Wilson is completing a doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in African American and multi-ethnic American poetics.