Rushika Wick (she/her) runs sunseekers poetry project with friend and poet Ana Seferovic - curating multidisciplinary and cross-modal arts events. She has collaborated with dancers, produced ekphrastic work for the National Gallery and creates poem objects. Her work has been widely published including in PBLJ, Poetry Review, Magma, bathmagg, SAND Berlin, Anthropocene and Gutter. Work as an editor includes co-editing of an international art and text anthology Disease (Carnaval Press 2023) and for Ambit and Tentacular magazines.

Her first collection Afterlife as Trash (Verve. 2021) interrogates selfhood and art in late-stage capitalism and was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her latest collection Horse (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) concerns speculative archives and has been long-listed for the Jhalak Prize. Infections of Loss (Broken Sleep, 2025) was the PBS Summer Pamphlet Choice.
Rushika is currently an MA student on the Writing Poetry MA at the Poetry School and Newcastle University.