Friday, February 20th 7:30 - 9:00 pm

Adults. EWU’s Visiting Writer Series is bringing poet and essayist Sunni Brown Wilkinson to Spark Central for a reading followed by a short Q+A session. Wilkinson has published three books; Rodeo, The Marriage of the Moon and the Field, and The Ache and the Wing.

Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist. Her newest poetry collection Rodeo was selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was 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. Her recent work can be found in Mom Egg Review, Terrain, Rust & Moth, New Ohio Review and Best of the Net. She earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University and now teaches at Weber State University. She lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.