Denise Nestor

Biography

Denise Nestor is an artist and illustrator. Her illustrations have been featured in a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, Esquire, and the Atlantic. Her work has been included in a number of exhibitions, both domestic and international. In 2016 and 2017, her work was selected as part of the Royal Hibernian Academy summer exhibition. 

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INTERVIEWS / Winter 2019

Reading the Bones

By Andy Eaton ,  Illustration by Denise Nestor

In his response to my first letter to him, Charles Wright said of my own decision to write poems, “I hope it gives you what it has given me—a life.” I took this wide view from such a hard gazer of a poet as both balm and call.
INTERVIEWS / Fall 2018

Forward Thinking

By Claire Schwartz ,  Illustration by Denise Nestor

Claire Schwartz: According to the poet Marie Howe, who studied with Joseph Brodsky at Columbia, Brodsky said: “You Americans are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that...