Nicole is a writer from Queens and daughter of immigrants from China and the Philippines. Her work has been published 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.She is an MFA student in Fiction at Rutgers-Newark and at work on a novel and short story collection.