Collier Nogues

Biography

Collier Nogues is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She 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 winner of the inaugural Drunken Boat Poetry Prize (2015), and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way, 2011). 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, The Volta, At Length, Pleiades, jubilat, Tupelo Quarterly, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Project, and elsewhere.

She is a core collaborator in the Yale-NUS project DOCUMENT, which gathers artists, writers, and historians to explore transdisciplinary approaches to archives. She also edits poetry for Juked.