Keith S. Wilson

Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow. He is the author of the poetry collection Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love. His poetry has been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best of the Net. Keith’s nonfiction has been anthologized in the collection Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy. His poetry and prose have appeared in Elle, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. His work in game design includes Once Upon a Tale, a storytelling card game designed for Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in collaboration with The Field Museum of Chicago, and alternate reality games (ARGs) for the University of Chicago. He has worked with or taught new media with Kenyon College, the Field Museum, the Adler Planetarium, and the University of Chicago.