Nicole Caruso Garcia (she/her) is the author of Oxblood (Able Muse Press), which received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Atticus Review, DIAGRAM, Crab Orchard Review, Frogpond, Light, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, Modern Haiku, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, the Orchards, PANK, Plume, the Raintown Review, Rattle, RHINO, Sonora Review, Spillway, Tupelo Quarterly, Extreme Sonnets and Extreme Formal Poems (Rhizome Press). A native of New Jersey, she is a longtime Connecticut resident. Educated at Fairfield University, she holds a B.A. in English and Religious Studies. After seven years in the business sector, she earned her M.S. in Education from the University of Bridgeport and taught English at Trumbull High School for 15 years. She has received a fellowship to CT Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute at Fairfield University, and a scholarship to the West Chester University Poetry Conference. Her poetry has received the Willow Review Award, won a Best New Poets honor, and has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is an Associate Poetry Editor at Able Muse and served as Vice President of the Board of Directors at the annual conference, Poetry by the Sea.
Education: Fairfield University BA; University of Bridgeport MS.
Journals: 823 on High, Able Muse, Antiphon, The Asses of Parnassus, Atticus Review, DIAGRAM, Crab Orchard Review, Frogpond, The HyperTexts, Italian Americana, The Ledge, Light Poetry Magazine, The Marbled Sigh, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, Modern Haiku, New Verse News, The Northeast Coast, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, The Orchards, PANK, Plume, Poetry Midwest, The Raintown Review, Rattle, RHINO, The Rotary Dial, Small Pond Magazine of Literature, Sonora Review, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Spillway, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Review.
