Nicholas Goodly is a writer and artist living in Atlanta.

They are the writing editor of Wussy Magazine, a Cave Canem fellow, 

author of the Georgia Writer's Association guest blog Free Verse, 

and team member of the performing arts platform Fly on a Wall.

Nicholas is a finalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize,

the runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize 

and recipient of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. 

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Nicholas received a teaching fellowship and MFA from Columbia University,

was a semi-finalist in the 2021 and 2018 Discovery/ Boston Review Contest,

is a Spring 2020 Hambidge Creative Residency Distinguished Fellow,

was a finalist in Tupelo Press' Four Quartets 2020: Poetry in the Pandemic,

received second place prize for the 2018 New South Poetry Contest,

finalist in the 2017 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest, 

and finalist in the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize.

They are a Best of the Net 2020 Nominee

and Critic's Choice for Best Poet 2018 in Creative Loafing Atlanta.