Thomas Mar Wee is a writer, poet, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York.
Born in Evanston, Illinois, they are a recent graduate of Columbia University. Their poetry was awarded a University & College Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 2021. They currently work as an assistant at a literary agency.
Fiction
The Clean Hour HERO Magazine: Issue 29 – Apr. 2023
The Photograph, Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing – Dec. 2020
The Winnowing, Quarto – Dec. 2020
Poetry
“Mourning Rites” and “Love: A Brief History”, SUSPECT, – Dec. 2022
self-portrait in a convex mirror: an auto-poiesis, Spittoon – Oct. 2021
Speech Acts, Academy of American Poets Prize 2021 Prizewinner, Poets.org – Aug. 2021
I Want to Lay Down Inside an Agnes Martin Painting, The Ekphrastic Review – Aug. 2021
Columbarium, Quarto – Apr. 2021
Mandatum, Nectar Poetry – Jan. 2021
New and Used Poems (Chapbook), Quarto – Nov. 2020
Essays & Criticism
“What Would Weil Do?”: Philosophy as Work, The Gadfly – Fall 2021
Revolution and the Body: A Close Reading of William Blake, Acumen: Issue 101 – Oct. 2021
Nuanced Portraits: On Brandon Taylor’s “Filthy Animals”, Los Angeles Review of Books – Sep. 2021
Speaker of the Dead: On the Ethics of Memory, The Gadfly – Apr. 2021
Fake Accounts, The Columbia Review – Apr. 2021
Thomas Mar Wee 