Nicole Cooley

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Nicole Cooley
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education Brown University
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Emory University (PhD)
Notable 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]

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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]

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