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Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry
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Biography:
Cecily Nicholson has worked for years in museum and arts education and is a long-time volunteer with Emma’s Acres, an agricultural social enterprise and restorative justice program led by community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity. Nicholson is the author of five poetry books and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and a Governor General’s Literary Award. Her most recent work, Crowd Source, considers the diurnal movement of crows. She is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC and the current Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley.
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