Marcus Wicker

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Marcus Wicker is the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing, selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series and published by Harper Perennial. The recipient of a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he has also held fellowships from Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Indiana University, where he received his MFA. Wicker’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Third Coast, and Ninth Letter, among other journals. Marcus is an assistant professor of English at University of Southern Indiana and poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.