Nicky Beer
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver
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)
Links to Sample Works
- Tupelo Quarterly, “Notes on the Village of Liars”
- POETRY, “The Magicians at Work”
- The New Yorker, “Juveniles”
