Rushika Wick is a poet and doctor whose first collection “Afterlife As Trash” (Verve 2021) was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her work has been published widely in anthologies and magazines including Magma (selected poet), Ambit, Poetry Review, The Telegraph and bathmagg. She has an interest in how social contracts impact the body and in the poetics of witness. She runs sunseekers poetry project (@sunseekerspoetry insta) with Ana Seferovic, is an Assistant Editor for Tentacular and co-edited the Disease anthology from Carnaval Press (2022)
She is a current student at the Poetry School. You can find her work online and @rushikawick on insta
