Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist. She is the author of the poetry collections Rodeo (winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, Autumn House Press, 2025) and The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and the chapbook The Ache & The Wing (winner of the Sundress Chapbook Prize, 2021).  Her poetry has been awarded New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize, the Joy Harjo Prize, and the Sherwin Howard Award.  She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University, teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.