BIO & contact

Collier Nogues (she/her) writes at the intersection of digital and documentary poetics, with an emphasis on making connections across decolonization and demilitarization movements in the U.S. and in the Pacific. Her poetry collections include the hybrid print/interactive volume The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground, selected by Forrest Gander as the winner of the 2014 Drunken Boat Poetry Book Contest, and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she teaches undergraduate and MA creative writing and literature courses.

Her creative and scholarly work has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and her writing has appeared in Jacket2, ASAP/J, The Volta, At Length, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Project, and elsewhere. She is a core collaborator in the Yale-NUS project DOKYU, which gathers artists, writers, and historians to explore transdisciplinary approaches to archives. She also edits poetry for Juked and curates Hong Kong's English-language poetry craft talk series, Ragged Claws.

If you’d like to get in touch, reach her at noguescollier@gmail.com.