Early Life & Education
Wilson was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he grew up and went to high school. He attended Wittenberg University on a partial basketball scholarship that summarily lapsed; he joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity his sophomore year and never played basketball again. He majored in English and graduated in 1993 with a B.A. in Liberal Studies. After college, Wilson worked as an international businessman, among other occupations, before returning to graduate school in 1995 at the University of Massachusetts-Boston to further his studies in English. He graduated with a M.A. in English in 1997. He moved to England and completed a M.A. degree in Science Fiction Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1998, then returned to Grand Rapids and taught high school during the 1998-99 school year, which saw the first appearances of his short fiction in publication. In 1999, he moved to East Lansing, Michigan to pursue a Ph.D. in English at Michigan State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2005 and is currently an associate professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus.
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