The late Perry S. Nicholas was an Associate English professor at Erie Community College North in Buffalo, NY, where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He twice received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award. He was a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria College, Niagara County Community College, and New York College in Athens, Greece and read his poetry in New York City and Woodstock.

Perry's work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. His poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Literary House Review, Caesura, Word Worth, Seven Circle Press, Slant, Feile-Festa, Louisiana Literature, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Chest, The Healing Muse and Chronogram.