Nicolette Polek

Undergraduate Discipline

Writing

BA, Bennington College. MFA, University of Maryland. MA, Yale Divinity School. Author of Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024) and Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull Press, 2020), which was long-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham award, Polek is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, BOMB, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Polek writes about representations of faith, despair, and the possibilities/limitations of art. She is based in New York and also teaches creative writing at Bennington College. SLC, 2024–

Writing