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Papers by Nicole Walker
Massachusetts Review, Aug 17, 2011
In MFA writing programs, students work hard on theses, often embarking on the longest writing pro... more In MFA writing programs, students work hard on theses, often embarking on the longest writing projects they’ve completed. But what happens when they graduate? This panel focuses on turning the MFA thesis into a book and landing a publishing contract. The panelists have written books that found their geneses in MFA/PhD programs and will discuss agents, editors, proposals, hurdles, and best practices for going from thesis to book in the transition from MFA to professional writer and/or academic
The Iowa Review, Oct 1, 2005
The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
Arizona Daily Sun, a newspaper so small the crease is a cut, and thereby you are halved again. An... more Arizona Daily Sun, a newspaper so small the crease is a cut, and thereby you are halved again. And then we pause and start back home. This emptiness is normal. The richness of our own neighborhood is unique. Let's go home. 2 seconds per exponent this time. 10 to the 7 th , 6 th , 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Let's reduce. Let's go smaller. 10 to the-2, approach the surface of the man on the picnic, cross layers of the skin, tiny blood vessels, an outer layer of cells, a capillary containing red blood cells, then into the nucleus of the man's cells, holding the heredity of the man, the coiled DNA itself, in an alphabet of 4 letters, the code for the man, 4 electrons. Quantum motion. At 10 to the minus ten we enter a vast inner space. The carbon nucleus. So large and so small. The domain of universal modules. A single proton fills our screen, fuels our scene. Jordan is still full of potential energy. Jordan's carbon atom still dots the curb. Those protons still shimmer with the quantum energy. If only we could get to know Jordan again, at this quantum level. A class held on the side of the road, her words as inky as 10 to the 40 th power, her words as resonant as the hydrogen bonds that keep the street, the grass, the tire, the bumper, the metal, the thump, the braking, braking, braking all together.
The Science of Story, 2020
Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2019
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, 2014
Massachusetts Review, Aug 17, 2011
In MFA writing programs, students work hard on theses, often embarking on the longest writing pro... more In MFA writing programs, students work hard on theses, often embarking on the longest writing projects they’ve completed. But what happens when they graduate? This panel focuses on turning the MFA thesis into a book and landing a publishing contract. The panelists have written books that found their geneses in MFA/PhD programs and will discuss agents, editors, proposals, hurdles, and best practices for going from thesis to book in the transition from MFA to professional writer and/or academic
The Iowa Review, Oct 1, 2005
The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
Arizona Daily Sun, a newspaper so small the crease is a cut, and thereby you are halved again. An... more Arizona Daily Sun, a newspaper so small the crease is a cut, and thereby you are halved again. And then we pause and start back home. This emptiness is normal. The richness of our own neighborhood is unique. Let's go home. 2 seconds per exponent this time. 10 to the 7 th , 6 th , 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Let's reduce. Let's go smaller. 10 to the-2, approach the surface of the man on the picnic, cross layers of the skin, tiny blood vessels, an outer layer of cells, a capillary containing red blood cells, then into the nucleus of the man's cells, holding the heredity of the man, the coiled DNA itself, in an alphabet of 4 letters, the code for the man, 4 electrons. Quantum motion. At 10 to the minus ten we enter a vast inner space. The carbon nucleus. So large and so small. The domain of universal modules. A single proton fills our screen, fuels our scene. Jordan is still full of potential energy. Jordan's carbon atom still dots the curb. Those protons still shimmer with the quantum energy. If only we could get to know Jordan again, at this quantum level. A class held on the side of the road, her words as inky as 10 to the 40 th power, her words as resonant as the hydrogen bonds that keep the street, the grass, the tire, the bumper, the metal, the thump, the braking, braking, braking all together.
The Science of Story, 2020
Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2019
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, 2014