Nicole Cooley

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]