Nicole Cooley

Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her BA from Brown University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and her PhD from Emory University. Her first book of poetry, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award and was published by LSU Press in 1996. Her second book of poetry, The Afflicted Girls, about the Salem witch trials of 1692, appeared with LSU Press in April 2004 and was chosen as one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. She also published a novel Judy Garland, Ginger Love, with Harper Collins (1998). Her third book of poetry, Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast, is forthcoming next year from LSU Press. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College—City University of New York where she directs the new MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation. Here she reads at the Turnstyle reading series on Thursday, March 12th http://turnstylereadings.wordpress.com/

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when did she talk about Salems Witches?