Noelle Kocot is from Brooklyn, New York, and currently resides in New Jersey. She has published seven collections of poetry, including "Phantom Pains of Madness" (Wave Books, 2016), "Soul in Space" (Wave Books, 2013), "The Bigger World" (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations from the poems by Tristan Corbière, "Poet by Default" (Wave Books, 2011). Noelle Kocot teaches at The New School and lives in New Jersey. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry and the American Poetry Review. One of the best-known American experimental poets, Noelle Kocot is the current Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.
Noelle Kocot is the author of four collections of poetry, with a limited-edition discography forthcoming in 2010, and a fifth full-length (The Bigger World) forthcoming in 2011. Her most recent full-length collections include Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009) and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006). She is also the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune (both from Four Way Books). She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry and the American Poetry Review. She currently lives in New Jersey.