Born in Sydney, Australia to Chinese Malaysian parents, Nicole’s poetry has been published in or is forthcoming from Adroit Journal, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Meanjin, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and Tupelo Quarterly, 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 2024 Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize, 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 “Deluge: A Chinese Almanac” is currently being adapted for stage by Serena Coady (UK) and for film by Grace Tan (Aus). 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). As an educator, she teaches classical Chinese poetry and its relationship to contemporary American poetry at the Asian American Literary Archive. She lives between the traditional lands of the Wallumedegal people (Sydney) and the Lenape (New York).