Nicole Cooley

Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Breach (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and Pedagogy. She is co-editing, with Pamela Stone, the “Mother” issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly.

She grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated from Brown University and The Iowa Writers' Workshop, and got her Ph.D. from Emory University. Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University. She is currently a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, where she directs the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.

Awards

• 1994 "Discovery"/The Nation Award for her poetry
• 1995 Walt Whitman Award chosen by Cynthia Macdonald
• 1996 she received a fiction grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
• 2006 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Published works

• "Weaning"; "Recto, Verso"; "Overlaying", Womb Poetry, EQUINOX ISSUE 2007

Poetry

• Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Q&A: Nicole Cooley and the New MFA", Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers, November/December 2007
• "PODCAST: Nicole Cooley reading as the 10th Florie Gale Arons Poet" 10,06,2008, Newcomb College