L. Lamar Wilson

L. Lamar Wilson is the author of SACRILEGION (2013)—the 2012 selection for the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, a 2013 Independent Publishers Group bronze medalist, and a 2013 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry finalist—and is a co-author of PRIME: POETRY AND CONVERSATION (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), a collection of poems and interviews with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, and Phillip B. Williams (bka the Phantastique Five). Individual poems, which have been published in African American Review, jubilat, Rattle, The 100 Best African American Poems, and elsewhere, won the 2011 Beau Boudreaux Poetry Prize and were nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. Wilson, a Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Affrilachian Fellow, holds an M.F.A. from Virginia Tech and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visit him at https://www.llamarwilson.com.