Sean Cole

Cole is from the Boston area.{{cite web |last1=Mardavich |first1=Audrey |title=It's All Right: On Sean Cole's "To Acropolis" – stylus |url=https://woodberrypoetryroom.com/?p=2085 |website=Woodberry Poetry Room |access-date=November 4, 2020 |date=October 13, 2015 |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021042744/http://woodberrypoetryroom.com/?p=2085 |url-status=live }} He grew up in the Unitarian Church.{{cite web |last1=Kalish |first1=Jon |title=Producer Sean Cole relishes the 'beautiful feeling' of performing weddings |url=https://current.org/2016/10/producer-sean-cole-relishes-the-beautiful-feeling-of-performing-weddings/ |website=Current |access-date=November 4, 2020 |date=October 24, 2016 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116002822/https://current.org/2016/10/producer-sean-cole-relishes-the-beautiful-feeling-of-performing-weddings/ |url-status=live }} In episode 660 of This American Life, "Hoaxing Yourself," Cole recounted how he spoke with an affected British accent from ages 14 to 16, a habit that sprang from his fondness for British programs like Doctor Who and Dempsey and Makepeace.{{Cite podcast |url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/660/hoaxing-yourself-2018 |title=Hoaxing Yourself (2018) |website=This American Life |host=Glass |first=Ira |date=November 2, 2018}}

He attended Marlboro College in Vermont, graduating in 1993.{{Cite web|date=April 12, 2019|title=Sean Cole '93 to address Marlboro College commencement May 12|url=https://vermontbiz.com/news/2019/april/12/sean-cole-%E2%80%9993-address-marlboro-college-commencement-may-12|access-date=November 26, 2020|website=Vermont Business Magazine|language=en|archive-date=April 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413024401/https://vermontbiz.com/news/2019/april/12/sean-cole-%E2%80%9993-address-marlboro-college-commencement-may-12|url-status=live}}

Cole's career in radio began in 1997 with an internship at the Boston NPR affiliate WBUR. He went on to work there for nine years as a news-writer, engineer, announcer, field-producer, reporter and, finally, a correspondent for the documentary series Inside Out. From 2006 to 2011, he was a contract reporter for American Public Media's Marketplace{{Cite web|title=Sean Cole|url=https://www.marketplace.org/author/sean-cole/|access-date=2021-01-23|website=Marketplace|language=en-US|archive-date=April 14, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414143714/https://www.marketplace.org/author/sean-cole/|url-status=live}} and, briefly, a senior reporter for Weekend America.{{cite web|title=Sean Cole|url=http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/archive/author_archive.php%3Faut_id=30185.html|access-date=November 11, 2020|website=Weekend America|archive-date=September 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921180554/http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/archive/author_archive.php%3Faut_id=30185.html|url-status=live}} He then worked as a staff producer for WNYC’s Radiolab for a year and a half. Cole has also contributed to the NPR programs All Things Considered, Only a Game,{{cite web|title=Sean Cole|url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/people/sean-cole|access-date=November 11, 2020|website=WNYC Studios|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116063508/https://www.wnycstudios.org/people/sean-cole|url-status=live}} and the podcast 99% Invisible among other shows. From mid-2011 through 2013, he was a regular guest host for The Story with Dick Gordon out of WUNC in North Carolina.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=List of interviews conducted by Sean Cole for "The Story with Dick Gordon"|url=https://www.wunc.org/search/google/%22Sean%20Cole%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=WUNC.org}} {{dead link |date=December 2024 |fix-attempted=yes}}

Cole became a contributor at This American Life in 1999, and then joined the staff in 2014.{{cite web |title=Sean Cole |url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/taxonomy/term/8616 |website=This American Life |access-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111101352/https://www.thisamericanlife.org/taxonomy/term/8616 |url-status=live }} He is currently a Supervising Producer for the show and serves as guest host occasionally.{{Cite web|title=Staff|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/about/staff|access-date=2021-01-23|website=This American Life|archive-date=November 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116185643/http://www.thisamericanlife.org/about/staff|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Archive |url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/archive |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=This American Life |archive-date=April 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421214440/http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=887 |url-status=live }}

In 2021, Cole won the Best Documentary: Gold award in the Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition for his story "Time Bandit," which was also nominated for a Peabody Award.{{Cite web |title=Third Coast International Audio Festival |url=https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/competition/2021-third-coastrichard-h-driehaus-foundation-competition |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=www.thirdcoastfestival.org |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913000927/https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/competition/2021-third-coastrichard-h-driehaus-foundation-competition |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=This American Life Episode #713: Made to be Broken {{!}} Act 1 - Time Bandit |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/this-american-life-episode-713-made-to-be-broken-act-1-time-bandit/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=The Peabody Awards |language=en-US |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223010810/https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/this-american-life-episode-713-made-to-be-broken-act-1-time-bandit/ |url-status=live }}

In May 2022, Cole released the poetry collection After These Messages on Lunar Chandelier press.{{Cite web |title=After These Messages |url=https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781951856090/after-these-messages.aspx |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.spdbooks.org |archive-date=September 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929041101/https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781951856090/after-these-messages.aspx |url-status=live }} He's also the author of the chapbook Itty City (Pressed Wafer, 2003){{Cite book|isbn=0972108998|title=Itty City|last1=Cole|first1=Sean|year=2003|publisher=Boog Literature }} and other chapbooks. In the anthology, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days, Cole's was day 95.{{Cite web |title=Starting Today {{!}} University of Iowa Press |url=https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781587298714/starting-today |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.uipress.uiowa.edu |date=April 2012 |archive-date=July 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708162544/https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781587298714/starting-today |url-status=live }} His poem "To Acropolis" was included in a collection of art and writing to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. In a review, Audrey Mardavich called Cole "a superb thinker: he can be irreverent when it matters most, he is inventive with his images and sounds, he is very funny".

In 2019, Marlboro College awarded Cole an honorary doctorate in humane letters.{{Cite web|title=Commencement 2019 {{!}} Potash Hill|url=https://potash.marlboro.edu/2019/fall/ooh/commencement|access-date=November 26, 2020|website=potash.marlboro.edu|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921050710/https://potash.marlboro.edu/2019/fall/ooh/commencement|url-status=live}}

• Itty City (Pressed Wafer, 2003)
• The December Project (Boog Literature, 2005)
• One Train (Dusie, 2012)
• After These Messages (Lunar Chandelier, 2022)

• "Union Street" and "Gansett Point"{{Cite web |date=2017-05-13 |title=Sean Cole in medias res |url=https://donyorty.com/2017/05/13/sean-cole-in-medias-res/ |access-date=2021-01-23 |website=Don Yorty |language=en-US |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522215253/https://donyorty.com/2017/05/13/sean-cole-in-medias-res/ |url-status=live }}
• "From the February Sonnets"{{Cite web |title=Poetry/ Sean Cole – Boog City |date=July 29, 2021 |url=https://wordpress.boogcity.com/2021/07/29/poetry-sean-cole/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524110801/https://wordpress.boogcity.com/2021/07/29/poetry-sean-cole/ |url-status=live }}
• "March 18, 2020" and "March 22, 2020"{{Cite web |last=Back? |first=Can We Have Our Ball |title=Sean Cole |url=https://canwehaveourballback.org/f/sean-cole |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=Can We Have Our Ball Back? |language=en-US |archive-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420055611/https://canwehaveourballback.org/f/sean-cole |url-status=live }}
• "Show"{{Cite web |title=Sean Cole - Show. |url=http://www.shampoopoetry.com/coles/ |access-date=2021-01-23 |website=Modern Poetry |date=May 31, 2020 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523181638/https://www.shampoopoetry.com/coles/ |url-status=live }}
• "five"—co-written with David Kirschenbaum{{cite web |last1=Kirschenbaum |first1=David |last2=Cole |first2=Sean |title=five |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/poetry/fourteen |website=The Brooklyn Rail |access-date=November 11, 2020 |date=December 13, 2017 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029054316/https://brooklynrail.org/2017/12/poetry/fourteen |url-status=live }}
• "From the States Project"—co-written with David Kirschenbaum{{cite web |last1=Kirschenbaum |first1=David |last2=Cole |first2=Sean |title=From The States Project |url=https://pinehillsreview.com/2020/06/10/kirschenbaumcole/ |website=Pine Hills Review |access-date=November 11, 2020 |language=en |date=June 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111032142/https://pinehillsreview.com/2020/06/10/kirschenbaumcole/ |url-status=live }}

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• [https://www.wnyc.org/people/sean-cole/ Cole's profile] at WNYC
• {{Twitter|id=ittycity|name=Sean Cole}}
• [http://jacket2.org/podcasts/into-the-field-sean-cole Interview with Sean Cole for Jacket2]

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