M.A. Nicholson

M.A. Nicholson is a New Orleans poet, editor, and educator. An M.F.A. graduate from the University of New Orleans—where she served as Associate Poetry Editor for Bayou Magazine—M.A. was the recipient of the 2021 Andrea-Saunders Gereighty Academy of American Poets Award and was Kenyon Review’s 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow. M.A. has work featured in Best New Poets 2022 and Winter in America (Again anthologies, as well as Peauxdunque Review, Diode Poetry Journal, New Orleans Review, Trampoline Poetry, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Around the Gate, was selected for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection prize.