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 Corbi�re, "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.