Nicole is the author of Nowhere Beulah (Unicorn Press, 2019) and her poetry has been published in Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, among others. Her artistic journey has been supported by the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences and the North Carolina Arts Council. Nicole pursued art, with an emphasis on darkroom photography, and English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before earning her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Currently, Nicole is immersed in her doctoral studies in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Nicole co-ran York Farm, a small-scale, organic vegetable farm in the foothills of North Carolina.