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about.
I'm a writer, visual artist, editor, and writing teacher. I live in the Pacific Northwest. My name is Nicole. Let's talk about collaborating.
Awards & Nominations
Machigonne Prize in Fiction
“Field of Saints”
Year of Award: 2023
Bridport Prize for Poetry Shortlist
“Lake Darling”
Year of Award: 2021
Booranga Prize for Poetry
“Casual Hills Surround Me at Night”
Year of Award: 2009
Books
The End of Welcome
Airlie Press, forthcoming 2025
The Friction of Distance
Bedouin Books, 2011
Saqqara, Editor
2010
Poems, Stories, Essays, and Reviews
Poems: “the thrash begins,” “The Ocean is Waiting,” “not emptying but opening,” “Belinda Blows Up (Love)”
Blue Lit World Lit
Year of Publication: 2024
Poem: “A Poem is a Different Person”
Little Patuxent Journal
Year of Publication: 2024
Poem: “The Pugilist Looks at Leaves”
Stone Poetry Journal
Year of Publication: 2023
Poem: “George’s Bar, Iowa 2001”
Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit
Year of Publication: 2023
Poem: “read books, fall in love, dream a lot”
Change Seven Magazine
Year of Publication: 2023
Poem: “Real Estate Life”
Gyroscope Review
Year of Publication: 2023
Short Fiction: “Field of Saints”
The New Guard
Year of Publication: 2023
Poem: “Toneless Voice of My Mother”
Masque and Spectacle
Year of Publication: 2023
Poem: “Autobiography of the Moon”
Bennington Review
Year of Publication: 2023
Poems: “Usher's Ferry,” “As far as I'm concerned, she's immortal”
DMQ Review
Year of Publication: 2022
Poem: “Some Blue Herons”
Blue River Review
Year of Publication: 2021
Poem: “Seldom I Allow a Swan”
Interim Journal
Year of Publication: 2021
Poems: “Francis Street,” “We Lived on Main Street”
Basalt Magazine
Year of Publication: 2021
Poem: “Day of Diminishing Returns”
Willowaw Journal
Year of Publication: 2020
Poem: “Ghosts and Landscapes”
La Piccioleta Barca
Year of Publication: 2020
Poem: “To the Woman on the Bridge”
Hole in the Head Review
Year of Publication: 2020
Poems: “Annette,” “Green Jerseys Swarm,” “Horsebarn Hill,” “I am a boat”
Spittoon International Literary Collective
Year of Publication: 2019
Poem: “For My Father”
Peregrine Journal
Year of Publication: 2019
Short Fiction: “Honeycomb Beach”
Driftwood Press
Year of Publication: 2019
Poems: “Helga,” “Cape Cod Morning,” “Woman in Braids”
Lana Turner Journal
Year of Publication: 2019
Poem: “Aries on the Rise”
SWWIM
Year of Publication: 2019
Poem: “A Blessing of Mothers”
The Same
Year of Publication: 2018
Poem: “I come to you unrehearsed”
Cathexis Northwest Press
Year of Publication: 2018
Poem: “Going Home”
Underwood Press
Year of Publication: 2018
Poem: “Forbidden Monologue”
Lily Poetry Review
Year of Publication: 2018
Poem: Narcissus or the pond?
Not Very Quiet
Year of Publication: 2018
Typishly
Poem: Corner of 11th and Hoyt
Year of Publication: 2018
Adolphus
Poems: Theater of 13 Rows; I am not empty; I am open
Year of Publication: 2018
Ibis Head Review
Poems: If you see him/ultraviolet megafauna; The Visit
Year of Publication: 2018
Magma Poetry
Poem: Abelard Writes to a Friend
Year of Publication: 2017
Flying South Journal
Poems: The Owl; Walking it Off
Year of Publication: 2017
Sound:Poetree
Poems: No Shortcuts; The Woman Who Loved Horses; Wesleyan, 1989
Year of Publication: 2015
YEW Journal
Poem: Calendar Girl (series of visual poems)
Year of Publication: 2015
Quarterly Conversation
Review: A World of Dew and Ash: The Poetry of Tomasz Różycki
Year of Publication: 2013
Evening Will Come, The Volta
Essay: It Only Takes One
Year of Publication: 2012
Quarterly Conversation
Review: The Arrière-pays by Yves Bonnefoy
Year of Publication: 2012
Quarterly Conversation
Review: Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 by Yves Bonnefoy
Year of Publication: 2012
YEW Journal
Poem: For the Record
Year of Publication: 2012
Two Serious Ladies
Poem: Form A
Year of Publication: 2012
Full of Crow
Poem: All Hue Forgotten
Year of Publication: 2012
Quarterly Conversation
Review: Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinksi
Year of Publication: 2011
Northwest Poetry Anthology
Poem: The Day the Clowns Cried
Year of Publication: 2011
Word For/Word, Issue 17
Review: With Deer by Aase Berg
Year of Publication: 2010
Humble Humdrum Frock
Poem: All My Cows Have Bells
Year of Publication: 2010
Foursquare
Poem: Residue
Year of Publication:2010
Parcel
Poems: Marlowe, Poem for Tory Dent, Phyllis and the Swan, Transcendent Echoes, The Rainiest June Since 1842
Year of Publication: 2010
Booranga Prize for Poetry
Year of Award: 2009
fourW
Poem: Casual Hills Surround Me at Night
Year of Publication: 2009
Wicked Alice
Poem: Canonical Ingredient of Beauty Numinous
Year of Publication: 2009
Word For/Word
Poems: The Engineer Who Couldn’t Buy a Second Beer; Guerlain: The Blue Hour
Year of Publication: 2009
VOLT
Poems: Belle du Jour, The Course in Smooth Bodies
Year of Publication: 2003
Gulf Coast
Translation: Boston, Canada (by Polish poet Dariusz Sosnicki)
Year of Publication: 2003
Visual Art
Paintings: “Deep Dive,” “Flowers in Dirt”
Ink in Thirds
Year of Publication: 2023
Photograph: “Los Angeles, April 2022”
Smoky Blue Literary Arts Magazine
Year of Publication: 2023
Photographs: “Camellias Series”
Hole in the Head Review
Year of Publication: 2023
Photograph: “Across Time”
Wild Roof Journal
Year of Publication: 2023
Photograph: “Inside Sky”
Red Flag
Year of Publication: 2023
Photographs: “Drink Me,” “Let's Drink”
Last Leaves
Year of Publication: 2023
Photographs: “Honey,” “Floating Lights”
Paper Dragon
Year of Publication: 2022
Photograph: “Iron Bird”
Dragon Poet Review
Year of Publication: 2018
