Nancy Miller Gomez is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) and Punishment (Rattle Chapbook Series). She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, LitHub, Shenandoah, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Massachusetts Review, River Styx, Verse Daily, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology and was awarded a fellowship from the Jentel Foundation. Gomez co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails, the Juvenile Hall, and as part of Cornell University’s Prison Education Program. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a J.D. from the University of San Diego, a Master in Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University, and has worked as an attorney and a TV producer. Originally from Kansas, she now lives with her family in Northern California. As the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz, she is collaborating with the County Office of Education to offer poetry workshops to youth across the county through Rising Voices Youth Poetry Collective.
