L. Lamar Wilson is the author of Sacrilegion (Carolina Wren Press, 2013), a Thom Gunn Award finalist, and associate producer of The Changing Same (PBS/POV Shorts, 2019). His work is published widely, including in This Is the Honey (Hatchette, 2024), Bigger than Bravery (Lookout Books, 2022), the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Times, Oxford American, and Poetry. Wilson, an Affrilachian Poet, has received fellowships from the Cave Canem, Hurston-Wright, and Ragdale foundations. He teaches creative writing and African American poetics.

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