Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?
Nicky Beer Searches For a Long-Lost Writer in the Family
January 9, 2023
By Nicky Beer
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Nicky Beer
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’s 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. A recent essay, “My Brother Says ‘What the Fuck,’” was listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays 2021.
