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 got 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. 6 (1). Spring 2007.
• "The Speaking Book". Blackbird Review. 6 (1). Spring 2007.
• "Topographies". The Best American Poetry. March 6, 2009.
• "The Flood Notebooks". PEN America. 10: Fear Itself. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-06-16.

Poetry

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

Novel

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

Non-fiction

• The Avant-garde at the End of the Century Gertrude Stein, Postmodernism and Contemporary Women Writers. Emory University. 1996.
• Jennifer Margulis, ed. (2003). Toddler. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-093-7.
• Andrea J. Buchanan, Amy E. Hudock, ed. (2005). "Thirteen Ways of Looking at being a Mother and a Poet". The Best of Literary Mama. Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-158-3.
• Catherine Wagner, Rebecca Wolff, ed. (2007). Not For Mothers Only. Fence Books. ISBN 978-0-9771064-8-6.
• Elrena Evans; Caroline Grant, eds. (2008). Mama PhD; Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4318-5.
• "Thoughts on Poetry and Disaster". Best American Poetry. March 1, 2009.