Breen Nolan is a writer from Rochester, New York. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert, where she received the 2023 Founder’s Award and was the inaugural recipient of the Lizi Gilad Silver Memorial Scholarship. She previously served as Managing Editor of The Coachella Review. Her poetry chapbook is forthcoming from Cooper Dillon Books in Spring 2026. Breen spent over a decade working in advertising and media. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.