Nicole Cooley

Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet. 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, The Missouri Review, and The Nation. She co-edited, 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 obtained 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 poetry
 * 1995 Walt Whitman Award, chosen by Cynthia Macdonald
 * 1996 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship (fiction)
 * 2006 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Poetry

 * Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
 * Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
 * Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
 * Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009