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Dr. R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio
State University and taught English, Writers' Seminar
(a course he created for select students), and Drama in
Columbus City Schools. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of
Teachers of English, awarded Nik Macioci best secondary
English teacher in the state of Ohio.

He won First Place in the l987 National Writer's Union
Poetry Competition judged by Denise Levertov, First
Place in The Baudelaire Award Competition sponsored by
The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets (1989).
Second Place in Zone 3's first annual Rainmaker Awards,
judged by Howard Nemerov (1989), and Second Place in
the Writer's Digest annual competition, Judged by Diane
Wakoski (1991).
Nik is the author of two chapbooks, Cafes of Childhood, and
Greatest Hits, as well as five books: Cafes of Childhood
(the original chapbook with additional poems), Why
Dance?, Necessary Windows, Mother Goosed and Occasional
Heaven. Forth-coming is Rough. His book, Cafes of Child-
hood was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize. Critics and
judges called Cafes of Childhood a "beautifully harrowing
account of child abuse, but not "sentimental" or self-
pitying" an "amazing book," and "a single unified whole."
In addition, Nik's work has been published in more than
two hundred magazines here and abroad. Most recently,
Macioci has published in The Society of Classical Poets
journal, Concho River Review, The Comstock Review, Blue
Unicorn, and Chiron Review. He is a member of Bistro
poets critique group.