Nicole is a writer from Queens and daughter of immigrants from China and the Philippines. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Electric Literature, Apogee Journal, Witness, and Split Lip. She is an alumna of VONA/Voices, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Tin House, and Kenyon Writers' Workshop. Her fiction and essays explore the alienation of diaspora and immigration, and how identity, power, and technology facilitate and fracture relationships. Born and raised in Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, she is now based in Brooklyn.She is MFA student in Fiction at Rutgers-Newark, and she is at work on a novel and short story collection.