Tiana Nobile is a

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based in

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where she works at an arts education nonprofit called KID smART. She is a Korean American adoptee. Her debut collection of poetry, ''Cleave,'' was published by Hub City Press in the spring of 2021.

Education and career

Nobile received her BA from

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, her MAT in elementary and special education from the

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, and her MFA in Poetry from

Warren Wilson College Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a required course of study, work an on-campus j ...

. She is the author of the chapbook ''The Spirit of the Staircase'', which was published in 2017 by Antenna, a New Orleans–based organization. Nobile collaborated with writer and interdisciplinary artist, Brigid Conroy, whose artwork appears throughout the chapbook. In an interview with

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, Nobile said the title of her chapbook comes from the French phrase, ''l’esprit de l’escalier,'' which “refers to the feeling you get when someone says something to you and you think of the perfect response or comeback 20 minutes later as you’re walking away down the stairs." Nobile is a recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the Lucy Grealy Prize for Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She was a finalist for the

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and the Kundiman Poetry Prize. A

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Fellow, Nobile has been nominated for a

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References

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