CODA GUEST JUDGES
CODA invites poets, writers, and editors to select the laureates and shortlists that shape each annual volume.
WINTER 2026 GUEST JUDGE
B. Luke Wilson
For the Winter 2026 CODA Poet Prize, B. Luke Wilson will select the laureate and shortlist from work advanced by CODA Poetry Editor Robert Black.
B. Luke Wilson is a Pushcart Prize–nominated writer and editor from central Virginia. His poetry and prose appear in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, Blue Earth Review, Moon City Review, HAD, and elsewhere. He won the Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize.
Wilson is co-poetry editor of Chestnut Review and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. He holds an MFA from Hollins University.