Nicholas Pierce

Nicholas Pierce was born in Bakersfield, CA. He graduated from Texas Tech University and received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida. During his MFA, he taught creative writing and worked on the school's literary journal, Subtropics . His own poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, and Smartish Pace , among other places. A resident of Salt Lake City, he's now working on a PhD in Poetry at the University of Utah. In Transit is his...See more

Nicholas Pierce was born in Bakersfield, CA. He graduated from Texas Tech University and received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida. During his MFA, he taught creative writing and worked on the school's literary journal, Subtropics . His own poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, and Smartish Pace , among other places. A resident of Salt Lake City, he's now working on a PhD in Poetry at the University of Utah. In Transit is his first book. See less