Nina Puro is a queer disabled poet whose work addresses rupture, torsion, and the aftermath of injury.
She lives in Brooklyn, where she is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative; works in arts administration for a feminist documentary film; and will soon enter the master's in social work program at NYU. She has taught poetry workshops for queer poets, Somali Bantu refugee children, and women in a psychiatric hospital.
A native of New Mexico who moved out at 16, she has a G.E.D. and an M.F.A. in poetry from Syracuse University, where she was a university fellow. She has lived throughout the United States and had a wide variety of service-industry jobs.
She has two forthcoming chapbooks (Argos Books and Dancing Girl Press). Her work has been published in several journals, including Guernica, Pleiades, and the PEN Poetry Series. Puro's first full-length manuscript, Each Tree Could Hold A Gallows or a House, is currently a finalist under consideration from multiple presses.
She has been a finalist for prizes including the Discovery/The Nation Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award, and she is currently at work on a second manuscript. MacDowell is her first residency.
