Nicole Cooley

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 and attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. She graduated from Brown University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and obtained her Ph.D. from Emory University.

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