Nicole Cooley

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.[7] Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University.[8] 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.[9]

Awards

• 1994 "Discovery"/The Nation Award for poetry
• 1995 Walt Whitman Award, chosen by Cynthia Macdonald
• 1996 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship (fiction)[10]
• 2006 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Published works

• "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.

Poetry

• 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

• Judy Garland, Ginger Love. ReganBooks. 1998. ISBN 978-0-06-039251-2.

Non-fiction

• 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

1. "Nicole Cooley".
2. "Nicole Cooley".
3. "The Flood Notebooks". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2019-02-28."The Flood Notebooks". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
4. "The Missouri Review".
5. "WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
6. "Nicole Cooley". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
7. "Nicole Cooley". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
8. "Nicole Cooley". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
9. http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Creative_Writing/faculty/cooley.html
10. "Louisiana Poetry Project: Nicole Cooley".

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