CANCELED—Nicolette Polek '15

CANCELED |  Nicolette Polek '15 is the author of the short story collection Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull Press, 2020), which earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly and has been positively reviewed in The New York Times. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she studied literature and music at Bennington College before pursuing her MFA degree at the University of Maryland. She is a recipient of a 2019 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and has been published in such journals as Chicago Quarterly Review, New York Tyrant, Hobart, and Electric Literature. She currently lives in Maryland, where she is working on her first novel.