Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves

06/05/2022 26 min
Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves

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Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon, 2015), were both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Poetry Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.