Noelle Kocot was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. from the University of Florida, and was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2001. Her first collection of poems, 4, won the Four Way Books Levis Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Lungfull, Fence, and Iowa Review, and will be in the Best American Poetry 2001. Her first collection of poems, 4, won the Four Way Books Levis Poetry Prize selected by Michael Ryan. It comes out in May. Noelle currently lives with her husband in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
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