Nicole Cooley is the author of five books, most recently the poetry collections Breach (LSU Press) and Milk Dress (Alice James Books), both published in 2010. She is at currently completing My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories, a non-fiction book. Her work has appeared in a range of publications from The Feminist Wire to Poetry magazine. She is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City University of New York and lives outside of NYC with her husband and daughters.