Poet. Essayist. Educator.
Nicole Morris is an award-winning poet and essayist. 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 the winner of the 2026 Cúirt New Writing Prize and a recipient of the 2025 Irish Arts Council Literary Bursary. She's an alum of the Tin House Workshop, Roots. Wounds. Words.Retreat for Storytellers of Color and DISQUIET International. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in the west of Ireland, where she is developing a memoir in verse alongside an essay collection.
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.
“… got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger, and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.”
― Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
Connecting in Creativity:
professional offerings
CONTENT CREATION & MESSAGING:
Copywriting, proofreading, and editing for impact
Copywriting, copy editing, web content creation, developmental editing, proofreading, program and curriculum design, proposals, research, organizational emails and newsletters, sensitivity reads, and work-for-hire writing.
Expertise working with individuals and organizations to develop, refine, and amplify messaging. Each client relationship begins with a chat to discuss project goals and alignment. Project-specific packages or retainer rates are available.
CRAFT AND CHAT:
Bespoke Creative Writing Workshops
Whether you call yourself a writer or not, everyone has a story to tell. Nicole's craft workshops are suitable for the novice to the well-practiced writer. Through guided conversation and generative exercises, we will tackle themes and topics that make up the deep fabric of our lives, such as shame, grief, joy, love, and loss. Nicole engages in trauma-informed teaching practices and has facilitated workshops in various small and large groups, organizational and strategic planning retreats, and college, afterschool, and homeschool classrooms.
Online via Zoom, in-person, and hybrid workshop formats available.
About Nicole
Nicole Morris is a working-class, biracial 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.
Writing across genres, Nicole finds that poetry and prose inform all aspects of her life as a mother, scholar, and educator. Her work explores the intersections of identity, power, grief, and shame through the lens 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.
Nicole adores compound words, birthday cake, and melancholy. She lives next to the sea in the west of Ireland, where she never tires of the wind or rain, and can go days without seeing another human being.
