Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American
poet
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. She has authored six collections of poems, including ''Resurrection'', ''Breach'', ''Milk Dress'', and ''Of Marriage''. Her work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Field'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ''The Paris Review'', ''
PEN America
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'', ''The Missouri Review'', and ''The Nation''. She co-edited, with Pamela Stone, the "Mother" issue of ''
Women's Studies Quarterly''.
She grew up in
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She graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and The
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Wri ...
, and got her Ph.D. from
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...
.
Nicole Cooley has taught at
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...
.
She is currently a professor at
Queens College, City University of New York
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, where she directs the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Awards
* 1994 "Discovery"/''The Nation'' Award for poetry
* 1995
Walt Whitman Award
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, chosen by
Cynthia Macdonald
Cynthia Lee Macdonald (February 2, 1928 – August 3, 2015) was an American poet, educator, and psychoanalyst.
Life
Macdonald was born in Manhattan to screenwriter Leonard Lee and his wife Dorothy Kiam.
She earned a B.A. in English from Benningt ...
* 1996
National Endowment for the Arts
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literature fellowship (fiction)
* 2006
Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
Published works
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Poetry
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* ''Breach'', Louisiana State University Press, 2009
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Writers from New Orleans
Brown University alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Emory University alumni
Bucknell University faculty
Queens College, City University of New York faculty
American women poets
American women academics
Writers from New York City
21st-century American women