B. 1984
The writer Marcus Wicker posing in a newsboy cap, leaning against a colorful graffiti wall.
Photo by Kristyn Greenfield of KG Creative Photography, LLC

Marcus Wicker was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the author of Silencer (2017), which won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices, and Maybe the Saddest Thing (2012), which was selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and many other magazines.

Wicker is the poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review, and he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.