She has authored six collections of poems, including Resurrection, Breach, Milk Dress, and Of Marriage.
[1][2] Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America,[3] The Missouri Review,[4] and The Nation.
She co-edited, with Pamela Stone, the "Mother" issue of Women's Studies Quarterly.
[6] Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University.
[6] She is currently a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, where she directs the M.F.A.