Nicky Beer : part one

Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of The Octopus Game (2015) and The Diminishing House (2010), both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. Her honors include an NEA, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a scholarship and fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she is a poetry editor for Copper Nickel.

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What are you working on?

I’m finishing up my third book of poems, called Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, in which I explore benign forms of “fakery,” such as duplicitous taxidermy, stage magic and optical illusions, as well as more malicious frauds such as plagiarism and forgery.