Nicole Callihan

Nicole Callihan was born in Hickory, North Carolina and raised in the Carolinas, South Dakota, and finally, Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1995, she received a BA from University of Oklahoma and went on to study at New York University where she received an MA in Poetry (1998) and an MFA in Fiction (2005). Callihan is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently, chigger ridge, selected by Sandra Lim for the Tenth Gate Prize which honors a midcareer poet for a " sustained dedication to...See more

Nicole Callihan was born in Hickory, North Carolina and raised in the Carolinas, South Dakota, and finally, Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1995, she received a BA from University of Oklahoma and went on to study at New York University where she received an MA in Poetry (1998) and an MFA in Fiction (2005). Callihan is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently, chigger ridge, selected by Sandra Lim for the Tenth Gate Prize which honors a midcareer poet for a " sustained dedication to developing a unique poetics." (The Word Works, 2024). Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin, 2023); the dual language collaboration, Translucence, with Samar Abdel Jaber (Indolent, 2018); SuperLoop (Sock Monkey, 2014); and several chapbooks including two collaborations with Zo� Ryder White, ELSEWHERE (Sixth Finch 2020) and A Study in Spring (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2015) which won the 2015 Baltic Writing Residency Prize. Her novella, 'The Couples," was published by Mason Jar Press in summer 2019. Jean Valentine declared Callihan's work " so unpretentious and alive and interesting." Nicole is also the founder and curator of Braving the Body, an ongoing collaboration with Thomas Dooley's Poetry Well which invites poets to reflect on embodied experience and includes workshops, ekphrastic experiences, and the Braving the Body anthology which she co-edited with Pichchenda Bao and Jennifer Franklin and which was released by Harbor Editions in March 2024. A frequent collaborator with artists around the world, she has received fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein, and Bethany Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Callihan taught in New York University's expository writing program for twenty years, where she was a clinical associate professor and a visiting scholar to NYU Abu Dhabi. She lives in Miami. See less