Leila Wilson

Leila A. Wilson is the author of The Hundred Grasses (Milkweed Editions), a finalist for the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.  Her essay on Walt Whitman and decomposition is forthcoming in 21 | 19 (Milkweed Editions). She received the Friends of Literature Prize from Poetry Foundation, and her poems and essays have appeared in Iowa Review, Chicago Review, Poetry magazine, A Public Space, American Letters, Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She runs the Writing Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also teaches creative writing and literature.