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.

Nicole writing explores Black American identities in our ever evolving world. Her short fiction 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. Her first creative nonfiction essay, There is a Police Officer in my Foyer, was published with midnight & indigo. Her work is supported by Tin House and Yale Writers’ Workshop.

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