Nicolette Polek books in order

Q: "How many books has Nicolette Polek written?"

"Nicolette Polek has written two books across two series."

Q: "What was Nicolette Polek's first book?"

"Nicolette Polek's first book is Imaginary Museums, published in 2020."

Q: "What is Nicolette Polek's writing style like?"

"Polek writes compact, parable-like stories with spare prose and a sense of quiet strangeness. Her fiction blends the ordinary with the mythic, finding odd beauty in bathhouses, grocery stores, and forests."

Anthologies

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Pets	2020	Buy

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Imaginary Museums	2020	Buy

Nicolette Polek is a Slovak-American writer from Northeast Ohio. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland and an MAR from Yale Divinity School, and she currently teaches at SUNY Purchase and Bennington College. In 2019 she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Harper’s Magazine.

Her debut collection, Imaginary Museums (2020), gathers 26 flash fiction pieces into four sections: Miniature Catastrophes, American Interiors, Slovak Sceneries, and Library of Lost Things. The stories are brief and strange, set in bathhouses, sports bars, and forests, populated by characters searching for exits and meaning. She also contributed “The Great Bird Search” to the multi-author anthology Pets, published the same year.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Nicolette Polek written?

Nicolette Polek has written two books across two series.

What was Nicolette Polek's first book?

Nicolette Polek’s first book is Imaginary Museums, published in 2020.

What is Nicolette Polek's writing style like?

Polek writes compact, parable-like stories with spare prose and a sense of quiet strangeness. Her fiction blends the ordinary with the mythic, finding odd beauty in bathhouses, grocery stores, and forests.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Anthologies

Collections