Marco Wilkinson

Marco Wilkinson is a writer and translator. His lyric memoir, MADDER: A Memoir in Weeds, was published by Coffee House Press. His translation of "Divine Invention, or The Celebration of Love" by Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco, was published as a chapbook by Albion Books. His work can be found in Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Seneca Review, Ecotone, ASSAY: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Breadloaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Montalvo Arts, Craigarden, the Hemera Foundation, and Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology.

Pronouns: he/they | él/elle

Languages: Spanish, French

Books

• MADDER: A Memoir in Weeds (Coffee House Press, 2021)  LINK

Articles & Book Chapters

• "Foraging as a Lyric Practice: The Ingenuity, Multiplicity, and Promiscuity of the Book-Length Lyric Essay," The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay: Insights and Prompts from Contemporary Writers and Teachers, Rose Metal Press (forthcoming)
• "Self-Speaking World,: ASSAY: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 2.2  LINK

Shorter Creative Works

• "Fire Sermon," Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent, University of Minnesota Press, 2025  LINK
• "How Do You Feel Today?" Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, ed. Paul Bogard, University of Virginia Press, 2023  LINK
• "After Nothing is Left, the Leaves...," Ecotone, Spring/Summer 2022  LINK
• "Succession," Seneca Review, Beyond Categories Issue  LINK
• "A Gardener's Education (Plant Body)" Territory, Issue IX  LINK
• "A Gardener's Education (Animal Body)" The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction, eds. Nicole Walker and Sean Prentiss, Bloomsbury, 2020

Translations

• Divine Invention, or The Celebration of Love, by Sergio Blanco, translated by Marco Wilkinson. Albion Books, 2024.  LINK
• "To anyone and everyone," a translation of "“À tout venant” by Henri-Michel Yéré , Jacket2, 2021  LINK

Book Reviews

• "Where My Body First Enters: A Review of Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven," FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Spring 2017
• "The Epiphany of Blue: A Review of John Linstrom’s To Leave for Our Own Country," North American Review (forthcoming)

• M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction, University of Southern Maine Stonecoast Program, 2013
• B.A. in British and American Literature, New York University, 1998