Collier Nogues has lived everywhere from Texas to Japan, teaching poetry and writing at  UC Irvine, Laguna College of Art and Design in California, Lingnan University, and the Institute of Education in Hong Kong.  In her most recent collection of poems, Nogues explores the colonization and militarization by Japanese and U.S. forces in Okinawa where she grew up living in a U.S. air base.

The work stands as an important post colonial commentary that erases passages from old historical documents related to the development and aftermath of the Pacific War in order to elicit a new, more human, meaning.  The book is also coupled with an interactive web app which shows the original documents and the specific lines Nogues decided to erase. Searching through the old texts draws the reader into Nogues's creative process while extracting a hidden beauty from the staunch and often deceitful documents.

Nogues's work can be found on her website, http://colliernogues.com/, and  the web app for her book can be found at http://thegroundistandon.com/.

Samples of her poetry can also be located at Pangyrus, The Academy of American Poets, or in the 20th edition of Drunken Boat.