FULL-LENGTH DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION:
OXBLOOD
Able Muse Press 
Available now through Able Muse Press, Amazon, B&N, and other booksellers.​

​SHORT BIO​

Nicole Caruso Garcia's full-length debut, Oxblood (Able Muse Press), recently received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her writing appears in journals and anthologies such as Best New Poets 2021, Crab Orchard Review, Light, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. She serves as Associate Poetry Editor at Able Muse and an executive Board member at the Poetry by the Sea conference.


LONG BIO

Nicole Caruso Garcia (she/her) is the author of Oxblood (Able Muse Press), which recently received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Atticus Review, Best New Poets 2021, DIAGRAM, Crab Orchard Review, Frogpond, Light, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, Modern Haiku, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, the Orchards, PANK, Plume, the Raintown Review, Rattle, RHINO, Sonora Review, Spillway, Tupelo Quarterly, Extreme Sonnets and Extreme Formal Poems (Rhizome Press). A native of New Jersey, she is a longtime Connecticut resident. Educated at Fairfield University, she holds a B.A. in English and Religious Studies. After seven years in the business sector, she earned her M.S. in Education from the University of Bridgeport and taught English at Trumbull High School for 15 years. A winner of the Willow Review Award, she has received a fellowship to CT Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute at Fairfield University and a scholarship to the West Chester University Poetry Conference. She serves as Associate Poetry Editor at Able Muse and an executive Board member at the Poetry by the Sea  conference.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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International Book Awards Winner for Oxblood
Best New Poets 2021, selected by Kaveh Akbar for "Is This Your Cow?"
​Able Muse Book Award Finalist for Oxblood, selected by Mark Jarman
Richard Wilbur Award Finalist for Oxblood, selected by David Yezzi
American Legacy Awards: Finalist for Oxblood, Narrative Poetry category
​Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Semifinalist for Oxblood
Philip Levine Prize for Poetry Semifinalist for Oxblood
Best New Poets: Nomination by Rattle for "Warning Sign"
Best of the Net: Nomination for "My Dirty Bedroom Secret"
Best of the Net: Nomination for "What Were You Wearing?"
Best of the Net: Nomination for "Ghost Ship"
Pushcart Prize: Nomination for "All Things Lost"
Pushcart Prize: Nomination for "My Dirty Bedroom Secret"
Scholarship to West Chester University Poetry Conference​ 
Fellowship to CT Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute, Fairfield Univ.
Willow Review Award: Winner for "If You Are Reading This"
Wrightgood/Scoot Editor’s Choice Award: Winner, "Anne and Sylvia"​