Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Of Marriage (Alice James Books 2018) and Girl after Girl after Girl (LSU Press 2017), as well as the forthcoming Mother Water Ash (LSU Press 2024).  She has also published two chapbooks and a novel. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a fellowship from The American Antiquarian Society and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.  Her poems have appeared most recently in Poetry, DIODE, and Scoundrel Time. She is working on a new collection of poems titled Trash. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York. Presented in partnership with SWWIM.