Nicole Cooley

Nicole Cooley’s first book of poetry, Resurrection (Louisiana State University, 1996) , won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award. Her second book of poetry, The Afflicted Girls , was published by LSU in 2004 and was chosen as one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal . She has also published a novel with HarperCollins, Judy Garland, Ginger Love (1998). She has received a Discovery/ The Nation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her work appears in Poetry , The Paris Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere.