Creative Writing Program
Department of English
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367

718-997-4600

Unisphere photo by Rik Panganiban; other photos by Charles Martin

Professor Nicole Cooley

Klapper 702, 718-997-4671
Nicole.Cooley@qc.cuny.edu

Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the author of two books of poetry and a novel. Her fourth book, Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press.

She received her BA from Brown University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her PhD in American Literature and Women’s Studies from Emory University. Her awards include The Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first book, Resurrection, a Discovery/The Nation Award, an NEA, a Creative Artists fellowship from The American Antiquarian Society, and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America.

She has published scholarly work on women’s writing and experimental poetics in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, The American Poetry Review and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture as well as in the edited collections Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker and We Who Love to Be Astonished: Innovative Women Writers and Performance Artists. Her non-fiction essays appear in Toddler, The Best of Literary Mama, and the recently published Mama PhD; Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life.

She is currently completing a new collection of poems, Milk Dress, as well as a cross genre project, The Flood Notebooks. And she is co-editing, with Pamela Stone, the “Mother” issue of the journal Women’s Studies Quarterly.