Nicky is a writer and artist.

Currently, Nicky is a contributing writer at the Cleveland Review of Books and a poetry fellow at Brooklyn Poets. They publish a Substack with Alyse Burnside called All My Dead Pitches.

As culture writer at the Texas Observer they wrote about film, art, books, Texan artists, and Texas history. Their criticism and reporting has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Texas Monthly, and Dissent. They authored two editions of a guidebook of Austin, their hometown, for Emons Publishing.

Nicky has published poetry and prose in literary magazines, received recognition for photography, and is at work on a lyric essay project and a video performance piece about trans embodiment and history. They attended the 2023 Sewanee Writers’ Conference for nonfiction.