Nicole is a writer and daughter of Chinese immigrants, born and raised in Queens, New York. Her work has been published in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Electric Literature, Apogee Journal, and Witness, and she has received support from VONA/Voices, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Kenyon Writers' Workshop. Her fiction and essays explore how relationships are affected by race, class, and technology. She is at work on a novel and short story collection. Native to 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.

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

"Complicating the Narrative of Mental Illness Using the Monsters from Asian Mythology"
Interview with Jami Nakamura Lin
Electric Literature, Nov 2023