Nicole Stellon O’Donnell lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. A recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in teaching, she teaches students in a juvenile detention facility. Her writing has received support from the Rasmuson Foundation and the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation.
“You Are No Longer In Trouble is one of the best books I’ve read in
a long, long time. It’s for anyone who has ever been in school, as
student or teacher, administrator or aide. It’s for every being
working so hard to be good or do better in this mysterious world.
It’s for people with excellent memories and people who forget too
much. An extremely evocative, superbly written, deep dive into
classrooms, hallways, and the precious human heart.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye
“Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s startling and
capacious collection, You Are No Longer in
Trouble, telescopes between late-seventies suburban Chicago
and contemporary Alaska. Student becomes teacher; daughter becomes
mother. These shifting identities organically engage issues of
place, the gendered body, and the economy of labor. . . . Deft with
the prose poem form, O’Donnell’s lines can be a choppy,
roiling surf, or become inviting and even languorous, but
always with a potent undertow. This book gives me a new
understanding of the attentions and estrangements prescribed by
America’s approach to schooling. More importantly, this book has a
rich, complicated heart.”
—Sandra Beasley, author of Count the Waves
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