Nicole Sealey

Nicole Sealey (born 1979) is an American poet who was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida, US. She is the former executive director of Cave Canem Foundation. She won the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize for ''The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named'', and her collection ''Ordinary Beast'' was a finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. Her poem "Pages 22–29, an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure" (''Poetry London'') won a Forward Prize for Poetry in October 2021. Sealey lives in Brooklyn, New York. Provided by Wikipedia