William Wright

William Wright is author of four full-length collections of poetry, four chapbooks, and a collaborative full-length book, Creeks of the Upper South (forthcoming from Jacar Press and Unicorn Press; written with Amy Wright. His full-length books include Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, 2015), Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011), and Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, 2005, winner of the Breakthrough Poetry Prize). Wright's chapbooks are April Creatures (Blue Horse Press, 2014), Sleep Paralysis (Stepping Stones Press, 2012, Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, selected by Kwame Dawes), Xylem & Heartwood (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and The Ghost Narratives (Finishing Line, 2008). Wright is editor of eleven editions: He is series editor and volume co-editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, a multivolume series celebrating contemporary writing of the American South, published by Texas Review Press; co-editor (with Daniel Cross Turner) of Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (University of South Carolina Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Daniel Westover) of two books focused on the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, to be published by Clemson University Press in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Wright has recently published in The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, The Antioch Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Poetry Review. Additionally, Wright serves as assistant editor for Shenandoah. Currently he is Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee. He is married to the writer, Michelle Wright.