Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell is of Slovak and Scottish descent. He was born in Greensburg, Indiana, in 1949, and attended Catholic and public schools in Indiana and California where he later studied verse writing at Los Angeles Valley College with Lawrence Spingarn and at California State University, Northridge, with poets Benjamin Saltman and Ann Stanford, and where, in 1984, he earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. In 1988 he attended San Francisco State University where he worked on an M.A. in Creative Writing studying poetry with Stan Rice. Campbell also attended California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo for two years. He has taught creative writing at the California Men's Colony, for Arts Reach at U.C.L.A., and for California Poets in the Schools, and participated in the summer writing workshops at Cuesta College near San Luis Obispo where he taught verse writing.