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Nicky Beer
b. 1976
Current City, State, Country
Denver, Colorado, USA
Birth City, State, Country
Northport, New York, USA
Biography
Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon, 2015), were both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Poetry Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she is a poetry editor for Copper Nickel.
Published Works
Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022)
The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2015)
The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010)
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
Video Reading
Current Title
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver
Education
Yale University
University of Houston
University of Missouri-Columbia