Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson is author of Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball, 2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (Iowa, 2006), and Figures for a Darkroom Voice (with Noah Eli Gordon and Noah Saterstrom: Tarpaulin Sky, 2007). He is also co-editor, with Christina Mengert, of 12X12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics (Iowa, 2009). After stints in Spain, Turkey, Slovakia, Arizona, Ireland, and Colorado, he has settled in Illinois where he teaches at Loyola University Chicago.