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Nicole Walker (writer)
Nicole Walker is an American essayist, poet, and professor.

Life and Work
Nicole Walker grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from Reed College with her Bachelor of Arts, and the University of Utah with her Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2000) and PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing (2006). She is Vice President of the NonfictioNOW Conference, board member for Northern Arizona Book Festival, and nonfiction editor of the online literary journal, The Diagram.

She has taught at the University of Utah, Grand Valley State University, and is currently an associate professor and MFA Program Director at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Her writing has been published in the following journals, among others: AGNI, American Poetry Journal, Barrelhouse, Barrow Street, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Brevity, Burnside Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Creative Nonfiction, The Drunken Boat, Hobart, Hotel Amerika, The Huffington Post, Iowa Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, Normal School, North American Review, Orion, Passages North, Phoebe, The Pinch, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Seneca Review, Shenandoah, Sonora Review, Sundog Lit, Terrain.org, Triquarterly, Waxwing.

Walker's books include Sustainability: A Love Story, Microcosmology: Feathered Essays, Egg, Quench Your Thirst With Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Robin Hemley called Quench Your Thirst With Salt, "part affecting memoir, part lyric meditation on water, part cultural critique... [an investigation of] all that is contradictory and curious in the micro climate of her immediate family and the macro climate of Utah to create not a dry treatise, not windless flight of experimental prose, but a natural history of thirst in all its manifestations, at once compulsively readable and intensely personal." In "The Next Big Thing," Walker identifies the following subjects in her book: "Utah's liquor laws, erotic fantasies, how to decide to have kids, sex offender databases, man-made lakes, oil, fish, Portland, Oregon, Salt Lake City, Utah, Bear River Bird Refuge, the Great Salt Lake, Chardonnay, red wine, vodka, Public Image Limited, VW Fastback, Jetta, Karman Ghia, flamingos, Mormons, Las Vegas, water rights, irrigation, wolves, cows, ranchers, snow, Hawaii."

She is also the co-editor of the popular nonfiction anthology, Bending Genre. A book about pushing the genre line, Bending Genre includes acclaimed writers such as Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, and David Shields.

Her book, Egg, is part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series.

In addition to her book projects, Walker has written nearly one hundred letters to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey. Called a "one-way pen pal relationship" by the Arizona Capitol Times, most of the letters are focused on public, higher education in the State of Arizona. Her Letters to Ducey now appear regularly at the Arizona Daily Sun.

Along with artist Rebecca Campbell, Nicole Walker curated the ekphrastic game of telephone, 7 Artists, 7 Rings. It originally appeared on Huffington Post.

Nonfiction
Sustainability: A Love Story. Ohio State University Press. 2018.

Microcosmology: Feathered Essays. Punctum Press. 2017.

Egg. Bloomsbury Editions. 2017.

Quench Your Thirst with Salt. Zone 3 Press. 2013.

Poetry
This Noisy Egg. Barrow Street Press. 2010.

Editor
''Bending Genre. Toward a Theory of Nonfiction.'' Bloomsbury Press. 2013.

Chapbook
Microwine. Essay Press. 2016.

Micrograms. New Michigan Press. 2016.

Distracted Parents of the Micromanagement Era. Black Warrior Review. 2015.

Awards
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant

Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Award

Independent Press Silver Medal.

Best American Essays, Notable Essays 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016

Best of the Net, 2013 and 2014