nicole ng zhao
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 how things like identity, power, and technology facilitate and fracture relationships, and how the political impacts the personal. Born and raised at the intersection of Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, she is now based in Brooklyn.She received a BA in English Literature from Rice University in Houston. By day, she works at IDEO, a global design firm; by night, she is at work on a novel and short story collection.
WRITING
"Why Are You Stranded?" (PDF)
Roxane Gay's The Audacity, June 2022"Love in the Time of Racial Reckoning"
Witness Magazine, May 2022
INTERVIEWS