Nicholson, Sara
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
English
ACADEMIC SCHOOL
School of Arts and Sciences
TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Assistant Professor, English
CONTACT
OFFICE
Plassmann Hall F-5
COURSES TAUGHT
- ENG 101. Writing I
- ENG 102. Writing II
- ENG 270. Creative Writing: Narrative I
- ENG 271. Creative Writing: Poetry I
- ENG 350. Creative Writing: Narrative II
- ENG 351. Creative Writing: Poetry II
- ENG 498. Senior Writing Workshop
ACADEMIC DEGREES
OTHER EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics, University of California-Berkeley, 2018
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Books- What the Lyric Is (The Song Cave, 2016)
- The Living Method (The Song Cave, 2014)
Chapbook
- Mortal Tales (The Catenary Press, 2018)
Poems in Journals (selected)
- The Yale Review, "Everyone's Poem" and "Ten Lyric Pieces" (2021)
- Oversound, "The Legend of Zelda" (2020)
- Hyperallergic, “Nut,” “Adagia” (2019)
- Berkeley Poetry Review, “Lines Heard,” “Wind, Rain, and Poetry,” “Salmon and Rice,” and “Fragment of a Would-Be Sonnet Sequence…” (2019)
- Chicago Review, “No Body,” “Vertical Suite,” “Arbor Vitae,” “Waking Up Sir Philip Sidney…” (2018)
- The Harvard Advocate, “What I Said, Where I Said it, and Why” (2017)
- The New York Times, “How to Stay Warm in Heaven” (2016)
- Harper’s, “The Middle Ages” (2016)
- The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, “The Burden” (2016)
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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