About Alicia Wright
I write to understand the contradictions, violence, and tenderness of the places that raised me. I deal in concrete imagery and deep-rooted lyricism to examine how personal, regional, and inherited identities settle into the body. Whether I’m writing about family, floodwater, or industrial disaster, I’m trying to make visible the things we’ve been taught to ignore. Through my work, I hope to bridge memory and place, revealing the small ways history and geography shape our present selves.
Biography
I am a poet and editor from Pleasants County who has been writing primarily about identity in relationship to place and landscape for more than 20 years. I was born and raised along the Ohio River on the West Virginia side of the Mid-Ohio Valley and left only long enough to attend college. After briefly studying at Shepherd University in the Eastern Panhandle, I completed my undergraduate degree in English at Marietta College, then moved to far northwest Ohio to earn an MFA in poetry. I’m the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Pictura Journal, an international literary journal, and the Vice President and acting Treasurer of the Literacy Volunteers of the Mid-Ohio Valley. I was awarded a 2024 Oak Ledge Residency at Hindman Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky and was recently commissioned to write a poetry collection about Pleasants County for Pulley Press, which is scheduled for publication in late 2026.
