Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist. Her second full-length poetry collection, Rodeo, was selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and will be published in 2025 by Autumn House Press. Other books are The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press) and The Ache & The Wing (winner of the Sundress Chapbook Prize). Her poetry has also been awarded New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize, the Joy Harjo Prize, and the Sherwin Howard Award. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.
