Bio

Nick Norwood is a professor of creative writing at Columbus State University and the director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, and Nyack, New York. His poems have appeared widely in a number of national and international literary journals, online sites, and public broadcasts including The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, New Ohio Review, the PBS NewsHour site Art Beat, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column American Life in Poetry, on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, Poetry Ireland's Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing, and many others.

Nick has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the 2026 NORward Prize in Poetry from New Ohio Review, an International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review, and others including the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for his third book, Gravel and Hawk. His other full volumes are The Soft Blare, A Palace for the Heart, and Eagle & Phenix, and he has also produced two fine press books Wrestle and Text in collaboration with the artist and master printer Erika Adams. His poem "powerhouse" was mounted in 12-inch corten steel on the RiverWalk in Columbus, Georgia, by sculptor Mike McFalls in 2016.