Her Pushcart Prize nominated poetry has been published in or is forthcoming from AGNI, Crazyhorse (now swamp pink), Gulf Coast, Meanjin, and Waxwing, among others, and has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Writers Workshops, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, AWP (US), Create NSW, Writers Victoria/Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund, and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust (Aus). Nicole is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and an assistant poetry editor at Four Way Review. Her long poetic sequence “Deluge: A Chinese Almanac” is the winner of the 2024 Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize and is in the process of being optioned for a screenplay by filmmaker Grace Tan and for a stage play by playwright Serena Coady. As an educator, she teaches classical Chinese poetry and its relationship to contemporary American poetry at the Asian American Literary Archive.