Caki Wilkinson

Caki Wilkinson is a graduate of Rhodes College. She also earned an MFA at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD at the University of Cincinnati.

Wilkinson is the author of three poetry collections: The Survival Expo (Persea Books, 2021); The Wynona Stone Poems (Persea Books, 2015); and Circles Where the Head Should Be (UNT Press, 2011). 

The recipient of the 2026 Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, Wilkinson is a professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Rhodes College. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.