Nicole Nelson

Nicole Nelson’s creative writing has appeared in The Masters Review Blog, HAD, Fiction Writers Review, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. For several years, she was a co-host of “Writers on Writing” on KUCI-FM in Irvine. Her work has received fellowship support from Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She was previously a fiction reader for Ploughshares and currently reads for The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in writing (fiction) from Bennington Writing Seminars and a PhD in linguistics from Rutgers University. She has taught linguistics at Rutgers, UCLA, UCI, and Cal State LA. She is currently working on a novel.

Substack: Sentence Appreciation — Literature through a Linguistic Lens