Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist. Her forthcoming book, 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, the Association for Mormon Letters award in Poetry, and the Sherwin Howard Award. Essays can be found in Best of the Net 2023, Terrain.org, and New Ohio Review.
She also co-directs a reading series in Ogden, Utah called Railtown Readings, which features celebrated writers of the West.
Sunni teaches at Weber State University and lives in Pleasant View, Utah with her husband and three sons.
