Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. She has authored six collections of poems, including Resurrection, Breach, Milk Dress, and Of Marriage.[1][2] Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America,[3] The Missouri Review,[4] and The Nation. She co-edited, with Pamela Stone, the "Mother" issue of Women's Studies Quarterly.[5]
She grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana.[6] She graduated from Brown University and The Iowa Writers' Workshop, and got her Ph.D. from Emory University.[6] Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University.[6] 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.[7]
Awards edit
- 1994 "Discovery"/The Nation Award for poetry
- 1995 Walt Whitman Award, chosen by Cynthia Macdonald
- 1996 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship (fiction)[8]
- 2006 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
Published works edit
- "Weaning"; "Recto, Verso"; "Overlaying". Womb Poetry. EQUINOX ISSUE 2007.
- "Incunabula". Blackbird Review. 6 (1). Spring 2007.
- "The Speaking Book". Blackbird Review. 6 (1). Spring 2007.
- "Topographies". The Best American Poetry. March 6, 2009.
- "The Flood Notebooks". PEN America. 10: Fear Itself. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
Poetry edit
- Milk Dress. Alice James Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-882295-83-8.
- Resurrection. Louisiana State University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8071-2059-0.
- The Afflicted Girls. Louisiana State University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8071-2946-3.
- Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
Novel edit
- Judy Garland, Ginger Love. ReganBooks. 1998. ISBN 978-0-06-039251-2.
Non-fiction edit
- The Avant-garde at the End of the Century Gertrude Stein, Postmodernism and Contemporary Women Writers. Emory University. 1996.
- Jennifer Margulis, ed. (2003). Toddler. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-093-7.
- Andrea J. Buchanan, Amy E. Hudock, ed. (2005). "Thirteen Ways of Looking at being a Mother and a Poet". The Best of Literary Mama. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-158-3.
- Catherine Wagner, Rebecca Wolff, ed. (2007). Not For Mothers Only. Fence Books. ISBN 978-0-9771064-8-6.
- Elrena Evans; Caroline Grant, eds. (2008). Mama PhD; Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4318-5.
- "Thoughts on Poetry and Disaster". Best American Poetry. March 1, 2009.
References edit
- ^ "Nicole Cooley". LSU Press.
- ^ "Nicole Cooley". Alice James Books. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ^ "The Flood Notebooks". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ "Poetry Feature: Nicole Cooley". The Missouri Review.
- ^ "WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly". Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Nicole Cooley". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
- ^ "QC Queens College". Archived from the original on May 2, 2014.
- ^ "Louisiana Poetry Project: Nicole Cooley".
External links edit
- "Author's website". Archived from the original on 2011-03-12. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
- Kevin Larimer (November 2007). "Q&A: Nicole Cooley and the New MFA". Poets & Writers (November/December 2007).
- "PODCAST: Nicole Cooley reading as the 10th Florie Gale Arons Poet". Newcomb College. October 6, 2008. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012.