Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born in 1977 in the Haller Lake Neighborhood of Seattle where he was also raised. He is the author, most recently, of Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk which won the Iowa Poetry Prize and was published in Spring, 2006. His first book, also a book-length poem, entitled Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms was released in 2005 by Pinball Publishing, and New Michigan Press recently released an illustrated chapbook called A Ghost as King of the Rabbits. After completing an MFA in poetry at University of Arizona, he went on to earn an MA in film studies from University College Dublin, and his work has appeared in many journals including Parthenon West Review, 14 Hills, CutBank, Barrow Street, and new poems are forthcoming in LIT, Ellipsis, Filter, Court Green, and elsewhere. He has lived in Turkey, Slovakia, Ireland, and Arizona, and a new prose piece about travel is out in the most recent issue of Phoebe. Next fall, 2007, his first film co-directed with Solan Jensen—a tour documentary about the band Califone, entitled Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape—will be released by Thrill Jockey Records. A new book of prose poems & fragments, an anthology, and a book-length collaboration with poet Noah Eli Gordon are all underway. Two new chapbooks of poetry are forthcoming as well: The Book of Truants & Projectorlight (Octopus Books, Fall 2006) and The Book of Flashlights, Clover, & Milk (Pilot Books, Spring 2007). Currently, he lives in Denver, Colorado where he teaches at Rocky Mountain School of Art & Design and at University of Denver where he is completing a doctorate. He keeps a links page here at http://eyelashfire.blogspot.com.
The other parts to The Book of Falling Asleep in the Bathtub & Snow can be found in current issues of Colorado Review, BirdDog, and online at Coconut.
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