NICOLE HENARES

POETRY • click on a title
BRATZ GIRLS
PINWHEEL
DEL MONTE GARDENS 1982
SUMMER 1984
CANNERY ROW 21ST CENTURY
CARMEL BEACH
ARPEGGIO

BIOGRAPHY

A Monterey Peninsula native, Nicole Henares, at the age of five, authored her first book about visiting the Monterey Public Library's lop-eared rabbit, Bigfoot, with her enigmatic grandmother whom she believed was Endora from Bewitched in disguise driving a Thunderbird instead of a broom. Throughout her childhood she wrote several books about friendless fairies attending monopoly championships in Las Vegas, and elves on the run from chicken vendors. As a student at UC Davis Nicole had the dubious honor of not getting accepted into poetry classes taught by Gary Snyder and Alan Williamson, and flunking altogether Introductory Creative Writing due to her misadventures with Davis' midget cop and other miscreants. Nicole has since studied with Elmaz Abinader, Quincy Troupe, David Mura and Cristina Garcia in the Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshops, and Kim Addonizio.

Nicole accredits the poetry and friendship of William Taylor Jr., Brian Morrisey and Christopher Robin (a.k.a. "The Zen Baby Federation") as the inspiration to pull her head out of the ass of North Beach and really write.

She is the editor of Magenta Press and has published limited edition chapbooks for Brian Morrisey, Bambi Lake, C7, Iris Berry, John Dorsey, Rosemary Manno, and Mark Schwartz.

Nicole lives in San Francisco with two cats and a Finnish bluesman who used to be a farmer.

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