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 got 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
Published works
Poetry
Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
Novel
Non-fiction
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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 Poets from New York City 21st-century American women