Kira Alexis Tucker

Kira Alexis Tucker is a Memphis-born, Chicago-based artist exploring dreamscapes and haunted ecologies. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. Kira earned an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English from Northwestern University, where she taught in the Department of English as the 2024-2025 Artist in Residence. A former managing editor of TriQuarterly, she was selected as a finalist for a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Wildest is Kira’s poetic debut.