Nicholas Goodly earned their MFA from Columbia University.Their chapbook Black Swim won the 2017 Poetry Society of America ChapbookFellowship. They were runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize andfinalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize. Goodly is writing editor of WUSSY.They live in Atlanta.
When this poet puts on necklaces, drinks, names, dreams, grieves, dances, desires, judges, hopes, lives, dives, the reader is not veering between poles, aware of how skillfully the poet lyrically narrates, how self and strangeness orbit. The reader is learning for the first time how Goodly wraps himself around everything we can do in this human life and names it, caresses it, disciplines it, sets it free. -Brenda Shaughnessy Nicholas Goodly's poems are a 'recipe for geranium eyes' that deliver us again and again, 'vulgar and backward,' into the waters of kindness, divine knowledge, and a true and essential American heart. -Glass: A Journal of Poetry