Bio

Born (1977) and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Joshua Marie
Wilkinson is a writer, filmmaker, and psychotherapist.

His debut novel, Trouble Finds You, was published by Fonograf
Editions (2023). He is also the author of nine books of poetry,
including the No Volta pentalogy: Selenography (Sidebrow 2010),
Swamp Isthmus (Black Ocean 2013), The Courier's Archive & Hymnal
(Sidebrow 2014), Meadow Slasher (Black Ocean 2017), and Bad Woods
(Sidebrow 2026).

His work has appeared in Poetry, The Believer, Tin House,
Pen America, Fence, Bomb, and in nearly two dozen anthologies.

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).

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. He is currently a series editor,
with Mark Levine and Lisa Wells, of the Kuhl House Poets series
for University of Iowa Press.

He graduated from film school in Ireland and has taught in Italy,
Turkey, Slovakia, Spain, 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 in private practice.

Contact: joshuamarie at gmail dot com

He will reply to letters sent to 1012 SW King Avenue, #306, Portland, OR 97205