A deeply compelling portrait of our educational system from the bottom up and the inside out, You Are No Longer in Trouble, is a collection of prose poems and flash essays. Part memoir and part investigation into the educational system, this compelling linked series explores the connections between one teacher’s family history, her experience of being a student, and the persona she has to wear in the classroom.
About the Author
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s first collection, Steam Laundry (Boreal Books, 2012), won the Willa Award for Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Brevity, Passages North, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Zyzzyva, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation and Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation, and in 2016 she won an Alaska Literary Award. In the past, she spent a semester in India on a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. Currently, she teaches language arts at a public school housed inside a youth facility in Fairbanks, Alaska.