Nicole Stellon O'Donnell

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s first book, Steam Laundry (Boreal Books 2012), won a Willa Literary Award for poetry. She has received both an Individual Artist Award and an Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation, as well as a Boochever Fellowship and an Alaska Literary Award from the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation. In 2014, she served the winter writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. She spent the spring of 2016 in South India as a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. She will serve as a 2018-2020 Heinemann Fellow. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Passages North, Beloit Poetry Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Redivider, Zyzzyva, and other literary journals. Her essays and commentaries appeared in the Anchorage Daily News on the Alaska Public Radio Network. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she teaches language arts at a school inside a juvenile detention facility.