Born in Sydney, Australia to Chinese Malaysian parents, Nicole’s poetry appears or will appear in Adroit Journal, AGNI, Meanjin, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Tupelo Quarterly, and Wasafiri, 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 poems have won the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and 2024 Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize, and placed as finalists in the 2025 Tupelo Quarterly Open Poem Prize and the 2026 Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian scholarship, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poem “Here is Where We Meet” is currently being adapted for an interdisciplinary installation with the Institute for Australian and Asian Arts and Culture at Western Sydney University, Opera Australia, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her poetry has been performed by Chamber Made Opera, Victorian Opera, and Marian Street Theatre for Young People, and featured on Channel 7’s ‘Sunrise’ (Aus). She currently lives on the traditional lands of the Wallumedegal people (Sydney).