Nicole Mauro - Bio

Nicole Mauro’s poems and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, such as Jacket, How2, Western Humanities Review, and Absent, among others. She is the author of seven chapbooks, one full-length poetry collection, The Contortions (Dusie Books, 2009), and her second book, Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet, is forthcoming from Black Radish Books in 2012. She is the co-editor of an interdisciplinary book about sidewalks titled Intersection: Sidewalks and Public Space (with Marci Nelligan, ChainArts, 2008). She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, Patrick, and daughters Nina and Faye, where she teaches rhetoric and language at the University of San Francisco.