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Anastasia Nikolis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of English at St. John Fisher University. Her academic research focuses on lyric confession and visual poetics in post-1945 North American poetry, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Teaching Poetry Now, Humanities, and Apocalyptica: Journal for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies. In her creative writing, she explores the intersections of visual art, place, and the body. A 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction, you can find her essays and poems in LIT Magazine, Cincinnati Review: miCRos, the Tampa Review, and Arkansas International.

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