About me
Winner of the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize and a 2023 Alma Award, Nicole Callihan has two recent poetry collections: chigger ridge (The Word Works 2024) and SLIP (Saturnalia March 2025). Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin 2023), the 2019 novella, The Couples, and a new chapbook, griefbeing, from Lily Poetry Review Books. She is also the founder and curator of Braving the Body, an ongoing collaboration which invites poets to reflect on embodied experience and includes workshops, ekphrastic experiences, and the Braving the Body anthology which was released by Harbor Editions in March 2024. A frequent collaborator with artists around the world, she has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ludwig Vogelstein, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Her work has appeared in Sixth Finch, Tin House, Conduit, The American Poetry Review, and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Find out more at www.nicolecallihan.com.