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 and has received support from VONA/Voices, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Tin House Writers' Workshop, and Kenyon Writers' Workshop.She is an MFA student in Fiction at Rutgers-Newark, where she is at work on a novel and short story collection. Born and raised in Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, she is now based in Brooklyn.