Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols grew up in Ames, Iowa. A graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts, he now lives in Chicago where he edits Weird Deer and works for the Poetry Foundation. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Crowd, Skein, Glitterpony, Octopus, Factorial, Lungfull and Isn’t It Romantic: An Anthology of Love Poems by Younger American Poets, among other places. He co-curated the exhibition Poets on Painters, which opened at the Ulrich Museum in the April of 2007.  He is the author of Iowa, and Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder.