Zackary Medlin grew up in South Carolina, ran away to Alaska, spent some time in Utah, stopped by Colorado for a bit, and currently hangs a hat in Arkansas. He holds an M.A./M.F.A. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where he was awarded the Clarence Snow Memorial Fellowship. His debut poetry collection Beneath All Water is the winner of the 2023 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize published by Conduit Books & Ephemera.
Zackary's poetry has appeared in The Boiler, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Grist, Iron Horse Literary Review, Mid-America Review, and Tinderbox Poetry, among others, as well as the anthology In Between Spaces, and has been featured on Poetry Daily. His poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have been awarded an AWP Intro Journals Award, the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, and the Nancy D. Hargrove Editor’s Prize.
He's an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith.
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