Tariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Thompson’s honors include the 2020 Adroit Prize for Poetry, a 2026 Best New Poets selection, and a 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.