Beer, Nicky

Nicky Beer is from the Long Island town of Northport, NY. She holds degrees
from Yale University, the University of Houston, and the University of Missouri-
Columbia. She has received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Louis Untermeyer
Tuition Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writersa Conference, and a Discovery/
The Nation Award. She is married to the poet Brian Barker, and teaches at the
University of Colorado, Denver.