Poet. Essayist. Educator.
Nicole Morris is a poet who writes autobiographical stories. Her writing has been featured in North American and Irish journals, including The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Roxane Gay's The Audacity, The Indiana Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. Nicole is a recipient of the 2025 Irish Arts Council Literary Bursary and has been supported by Tin House and DISQUIET International. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Western Ireland, where she is putting the final touches on a memoir in verse alongside a linked lyrical essay collection exploring shame, inherited anguish, and forgetting as a survival tactic.
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I write lyrical, story-driven personal narratives that examine the intersections of identity, grief, motherhood, and memory. I'm obsessed with the speculative, shame, and second chances that never arrive. Recurrent themes include death, the body, grief, and the redemptive potency of love. ​​
About Nicole
Nicole Morris is a working-class, Black mother, poet, and essayist born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She holds an MA in Writing from the University of Galway, Ireland, and an MA in Education, with a research emphasis on Decolonial Practices in Education, from Prescott College.
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​Writing across genres, Nicole finds that poetry and prose inform all aspects of her life as a mother, scholar, and educator. Her work contends with the intersections of identity, power, grief, and shame through the framework of family. Nicole has more than twenty years of teaching experience, most recently at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she spent ten years in the Creative Writing department.
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She adores compound words, birthday cake, and sad songs. She lives next to the sea in the West of Ireland.​​
