Stacy R. Nigliazzo's poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including the American Journal of Nursing, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ilanot Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Thrush Poetry Journal. Her first collection of poems, Scissored Moon, won First Place in the 2014 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in Public Interest and Creative Works. She lives in Houston, Texas, and has worked as an emergency room nurse for the past twelve years.

Books by Stacy R. Nigliazzo:

Other poems on the web by Stacy R. Nigliazzo:
Two poems
Four poems
"Mark Strand's Poetry Moved Easily from Common to Sublime"
"Finding the Desert at Daybreak"
Two poems
Nine poems
"Harvesting Her Heart After the Accident"
Four poems
"At Midnight"

About Sky the Oar:

"Reminiscent of William Carlos Williams' 'This Is Just to Say,' many arresting poems in Sky the Oar row us through many life and death narratives, through the medical gaze: American in their specificity, universal in their compassion."
—Fady Joudah

"Steeped in violence, sadness, and the strange light of hospital rooms, these impressionistic poems offer glimpses of scenes we know will continue to play out indefinitely in the lives of the characters who inhabit them. Here, a father holds his child for the last time, or a surgeon hesitates before cutting into the body of a broken man, or nurses carry 'needles full of sleep.' Here, a woman lies on a table while a blade 'steps through the door of her breastbone.' Stacy R. Nigliazzo writes of sickness, pain, love and beauty with enormous precision and skill. The result is one of the most moving poetry books I have read in years."
—Kevin Prufer