Nicole holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University and an M.A. in Sociology and Education from Columbia Teachers College. She spent over ten years working in college admissions and continues part-time while writing her second novel.

A recent attendee of Yale Writers’ Workshop, she finalized her upmarket women’s fiction manuscript titled UPRIGHT AND BLAMELESS, a coming-of-age campus novel that explores the gray areas of sexual consent. Additionally, Nicole explores Black American identity with her short fiction which won the 2024 Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize ( forthcoming in issue 51.2) and was named a finalist for the CRAFT 2024 Short Fiction Prize.

She serves on the Inprint Houston Advisory Board, a local non-profit that promotes the literary arts community across the city.