Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, forthcoming from Ecco in fall 2017, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize, as well as fellowships from CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
Nicole Sealey
Articles by Nicole Sealey
Tuesday October 4
The PEN Ten with Ishion Hutchinson
“You are naturally paying tribute to the dead and the living, because a poem is the vehicle of reciprocal tension between what came before and what is present.”
Tuesday May 10
The PEN Ten with Tina Chang
“We are each placed here to carry out something quite distinctive, quite separate. That individuality of purpose makes for friction that is very much alive.”
Tuesday March 8
The PEN Ten with John Murillo
“It was after the Rodney King verdicts were announced in April of 1992. I remember feeling simultaneously pleased and disappointed with myself that my first response was to want to write something. Not to burn, or blow up, or smash. But to write.”