Nancy Kuhl is an American poet and curator who earned an M.A. in English literature from Ohio University, an M.F.A. in poetry from The Ohio State University, and an M.L.S. from SUNY Buffalo. Winner of the Tom Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize, Kuhl’s poetry explores domesticity, the lives of women, and private cultures of family.
Kuhl’s fourth full length collection of poetry, On Hysteria, was published in 2022. Other recent projects include Granite, and The Birds of the Year. She was recently awarded an Artists Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA.
Kuhl is and Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University; she is the author of exhibition catalogs including Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts and The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn.
At MacDowell in 2006, Kuhl drafted poems that were published in The Nocturnal Factory (2008) and Pine to Sound (2015). During her 2024 residency, she drafted a new collection of poems, a chapbook tentatively titled The Narrator is Omniscient.
