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Kira Tucker is a native of Memphis, Tennessee and winner of the 2025 National Poetry Series, selected by Siwar Masannat. She earned an MFA in creative writing and an MA in English from Northwestern University, where she was the 2024–25 artist in residence. Her work has been published by Poetry, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, the Iowa Review, and more. A former managing editor of TriQuarterly, Tucker was a finalist for a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Wildest is her debut collection.
Forthcoming: 12/1/26
This National Poetry Series–winning debut collection asks how we can make meaning in our lives during a time of ecological crisis and rampant social injustice.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before December 1, 2026.
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