Nicole Stellon O’Donnell

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s first collection, Steam Laundry (Boreal Books, 2012), won the Willa Award for Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Brevity, Passages North, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Zyzzyva, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation, and in 2016 she won an Alaska Literary Award. In the past, she spent a semester in India on a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. Currently, she teaches language arts at a public school housed inside a youth facility in Fairbanks, Alaska.