Alicia Wright is originally from Georgia, and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Denver, where she is currently a PhD candidate in English & Literary Arts. She is the editor of Annulet: A Journal of Poetics. Her poems appear in the Paris Review, West Branch, and jubilat, among others. At present, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, and lives in Iowa City.