Biography
Lindsay Wilson is the author of two full length collections of poetry, including No Elegies, winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award in 2014, and The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat. He is also the author of six chapbooks. The most recent of which are Black-Footed Country and Because the Dirt Here is Poor. He edited the zine Unwound and the Glue Stick broadside series as well as serving as an editor for The Owen Wister Review and Fugue. Since 2006 Wilson has edited The Meadow.
He has received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2018, he was awarded a Silver Pen from the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame. He has also been named a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize, received special mentions in the Pushcart Prize Anthology (as both a poet and editor), and he was runner-up for The Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Award for Poetry in 2024. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the Poet Laureate of Reno, Nevada. He was asked to read an original poem for the 2019 Governor's Inauguration in Carson City, Nevada. His writing has appeared in The Colorado Review, Fourth Genre, The Carolina Quarterly, The Missouri Review Online Poem of the Week, Narrative, and The Bellevue Literary Review, among others.
Wilson grew up in Bakersfield, California and then moved to Laramie, Wyoming to attend the University of Wyoming where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Science with a minor in History before completing his Master of Arts in English. In 2006, he completed his Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at the University of Idaho. His father is the photographer, Harry Wilson. Lindsay works as an English professor at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada.