Nicole Cooley Explained

Nicole Cooley
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Education:	Brown University Iowa Writers' Workshop Emory University (PhD)
Awards:	Walt Whitman Award (1995) Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award (2006)

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 obtained her Ph.D. from Emory University.^[6] Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University.^[6] 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.^[7]

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)^[8]
• 2006 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Published works

• Weaning"; "Recto, Verso"; "Overlaying. Womb Poetry. EQUINOX ISSUE 2007.
• Incunabula. Blackbird Review. Spring 2007. 6. 1.
• The Speaking Book. Blackbird Review. Spring 2007. 6. 1.
• Topographies. March 6, 2009. The Best American Poetry.
• The Flood Notebooks. PEN America. 10: Fear Itself. 2009-06-16. 2009-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20090603063801/http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3383/prmID/1502. dead.

Poetry

• Book: Milk Dress. Alice James Books. 2010. 978-1-882295-83-8.
• Book: Resurrection. Louisiana State University Press. 1996. 978-0-8071-2059-0.
• Book: The Afflicted Girls. 2004. Louisiana State University Press. 978-0-8071-2946-3 .
• Breach, Louisiana State University Press, 2009

Novel

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

Non-fiction

• Book: The Avant-garde at the End of the Century Gertrude Stein, Postmodernism and Contemporary Women Writers. Emory University. 1996.
• Book: Toddler. Seal Press. 2003. 978-1-58005-093-7. Jennifer Margulis.
• Book: The Best of Literary Mama. https://books.google.com/books?id=-v9x-EB06loC&q=Nicole+Cooley&pg=PA12. Thirteen Ways of Looking at being a Mother and a Poet. Andrea J. Buchanan, Amy E. Hudock. Seal Press. 2005. 978-1-58005-158-3.
• Book: Not For Mothers Only. Catherine Wagner, Rebecca Wolff. Fence Books. 2007. 978-0-9771064-8-6 .
• Book: Mama PhD; Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life. Rutgers University Press. 2008. 978-0-8135-4318-5. Elrena Evans. Caroline Grant.
• Web site: Thoughts on Poetry and Disaster. March 1, 2009. Best American Poetry.

External links

• Web site: Author's website. 2009-06-16. 2011-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20110312064446/http://www.nicolecooley.com/bio.html. dead.
• Q&A: Nicole Cooley and the New MFA. Kevin Larimer. Poets & Writers. November 2007 . November/December 2007.
• Web site: PODCAST: Nicole Cooley reading as the 10th Florie Gale Arons Poet. https://archive.today/20121215095208/http://newcomb.tulane.edu/article/nicole-cooley-podcast?department_id=nccrow-programs-arons-poets. dead. December 15, 2012. October 6, 2008. Newcomb College.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nicole Cooley. LSU Press.
2. Web site: Nicole Cooley. Alice James Books. September 21, 2021.
3. Web site: The Flood Notebooks. https://web.archive.org/web/20110607191628/https://pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3383/prmID/1502. dead. 2011-06-07. 2019-02-28.
4. Web site: Poetry Feature: Nicole Cooley. The Missouri Review.
5. Web site: WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. February 28, 2019.
6. Web site: Nicole Cooley. 2019-02-28.
7. Web site: QC Queens College. https://web.archive.org/web/20140502124240/http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Creative_Writing/faculty/cooley.html. May 2, 2014. dead.
8. Web site: Louisiana Poetry Project: Nicole Cooley.