Writers Reading: Caleb Nolen
Join us for the fall 2026 Writers Reading series.
Caleb Nolen was born in Wisconsin and grew up in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He earned his bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. His debut collection, Afterlight, was selected by Jennifer Chang as the winner of the 2025 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Caleb’s poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Bat City Review, Fence, The Georgia Review and elsewhere, and he has received support from Blue Mountain Center and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where he was a work-study scholar. He currently lives with his wife in the Shenandoah Valley.
