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, Poet Lore, Split Lip Magazine, the Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Thompson’s honors include a 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and the 2020 Adroit Prize for Poetry. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where he was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.