Adam Wilson, a 40-something male with balding red hair, a beard, and glasses pushed up on top of his head, wearing a blue sweater, stands in the foreground with clouds, a beach, and an ocean in the background. In the lower right corner is a date stamp show

Pisces, Poet, SF CA


Adam Wilson

(he/him) has formerly been a forklift driver, a café-chain barista, a bookseller, a shipping clerk, the late night cashier at a fast-casual sandwich shop, a data entry clerk for a university research project, a high school dropout, and a college dropout. He served as the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at USF while completing his MFA in poetry.Read Adam's most recent chapbook, 'The Instructions'Adam's writing concerns itself with looking for the sacred in the mundane, the miracles in the quotidian, and the unifying qualities of all of us being alive at the same time in this world which is somehow outside of us and also exists because we're all here to be in it.He has extensive experience as a small press publisher, an editor of anthologies of various kinds of writing, and can probably still drive a forklift.Born in western Canada, he currently lives in San Francisco mere blocks from Ocean Beach where he can often be found pointing his camera at the ocean.