Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Nicole Hefner Callihan

Poems, Stories, and Essays
In many journals, including La Petite Zine, Lingo, New York Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, the National Literary Review, Washington Square, Salt Hill, and Heliotrope.

Book
Editor, From Medusa to the Sky: Teaching Writing to Children with Special Needs (Teachers & Writers, 2001).

Grants and Fellowships Spring 2007: Ludwig Vogelstein Writing Grant, A One Ghost Town: Henry River Mill Village Poems, Stories, and Essays
Fall 2006: Staten Island Zoo Poetry Grant
Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005: Parents as Arts Partners Teaching Artist Grant, New York Public Schools

Honors and Awards
Spring 2005 and Spring 2004: Nominated for the New York University Award for Teaching Excellence
Spring 2004: Notable Reading for Best American Non-required Reading
Spring 2003: Finalist for The Iowa Award in Literary Nonfiction
Fall 1998: Selected by Jean Valentine for the Washington Square Poetry Prize

Nicole was born in Hickory, North Carolina, but spent her early years moving from town to town throughout the south. She is a writer of poems, stories, and essays.

In 1995, Nicole received a BA summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma with additional study at Oxford University, St. Edmond’s College. She went on to earn two MFAs from New York University, one in poetry and one in fiction. She now serves as a language lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at NYU.

Dedicated not only to the art of writing but also to the art of teaching writing, Nicole has worked in schools and hospitals throughout New York City. She is driven by the belief that ultimately we all want to be better understood—-by ourselves and by each other—and that this understanding is facilitated through writing.

Nicole lives with her husband and daughter in their home in Brooklyn. She can be found at her blog www.nicolehefner.blogspot.com or reached at mnh777@hotmail.com.