Nancy Sullivan was a poet and emeritus professor of English at Rhode Island College. She taught additionally at Brown University.
It was Tom Chandler, poet laureate of Rhode Island emeritus, who described Sullivan in lofty terms in a 2004 column for The Providence Journal: “We are a place of many hidden treasures, both in our land and in our people — especially our people,” Chandler wrote. “One of Rhode Island's literary treasures is poet Nancy Sullivan, of West Kingston, a nationally honored writer for more than four decades.”
Poetry fellow National Endowment for the Arts, 1976-1977; named to Hunter College Hall of Fame, New York City, 1998. Member Poets House, Poetry Society of America, Humanities Forum Rhode Island. Bachelor, Hunter College, 1951. Master of Arts, University Rhode Island, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, University Connecticut, 1963.