Nicole Callihan's poems, stories, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly, Cream City Review, the North American Review, lingo and Forklift, Ohio. She was a finalist for the Iowa Review’s Award for Literary Nonfiction and was named Notable Reading for Best American Non-required Reading. She teaches at New York University and in schools and hospitals in New York City, and is a founding member of the Brooklyn Writers Collaborative.