Project Contributor, Ph.D., Department of English and Comp. Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Lamar Wilson’s cross-genre work centers the voices and experiences of black, brown, and indigenous folk thriving in the rural South despite white nationalist terror. He is the author of Sacrilegion—the 2012 selection for the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, an Independent Publishers Group bronze medalist, and a Thom Gunn Award finalist—and co-author of Prime: Poetry and Conversation (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), with Darrel Alejandro Hoynes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, and Phillip B. Williams. Wilson is on the faculty at Florida State University, and has received fellowships from, among others, the Cave Canem, Ragdale, and Hurston-Wright foundations. He holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and a doctorate in African American and multiethnic American poetics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.