We Had a Picnic by Nicole Santalucia

Nicole Santalucia is the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books, 2020), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press, 2019), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the Charlotte Mew Chapbook Prize, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, and the Arkana Literary Review Editor’s Choice Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Palette Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Sonora Review, North American Review, Fourteen Hills, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Out Magazine and elsewhere. She is a Professor, the Director of First-Year Writing, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, and she serves on the steering committee of the Institute for Social Inclusion at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She has led poetry workshops in the Cumberland County Prison, Shippensburg and Harrisburg Public Libraries, the Boys & Girls Club, nursing homes, and she’s the founder of The Binghamton Poetry Project. Santalucia received her M.F.A. from The New School University and her Ph.D. from Binghamton University.

21 April 2025