Alicia Wright is a poet, educator, editor, scholar, publisher, and critic.
Originally from Rome, Georgia, Alicia Wright has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and from the University of Denver, where she received her Ph.D. in English and Literary Arts. She served as the 2020–2021 Denver Quarterly Editorial Fellow (Associate Editor), and is the editor of Annulet and publisher of Annulet Editions. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, and she currently works as Managing Editor of The Iowa Review. She also hosts the poetry reading series Normie Creep in the Sacred Grove.
She is the author of You’re Called By the Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, 2025) and A Coin, A Moth, A Literary Journal, an essay chapbook forthcoming from DoubleCross Press. Her poetry appears in the Paris Review, Chicago Review, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, West Branch, and jubilat, among others. Essays and reviews appear in Full Stop, Los Angeles Review of Books, and on the Ploughshares blog. Her essay, “Deepstep Come Shining’s Interlucidations" is forthcoming in Selves and Others: Essays on C.D. Wright (Under Discussion Series, University of Michigan Press), and she served as cluster editor for “C.D. Wright in Context” with Contemporaries at Post45 (forthcoming 2025).
As a freelance editor, writer, and teacher, Alicia is available for community-engaged poetry and narrative history workshops, class visits, literary criticism mentorship, poetry manuscript consultations, single poem or chapbook assessments, creative writing MFA or Ph.D. application consultations, or other ideas for teaching or editorial collaboration. Inquiries here are welcome, or you can fill out this form to get started. Follow her on Instagram.