Nicole is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, with a career that reads like the contents of a very glamorous, slightly chaotic handbag, filled with glossy magazines, boarding passes, and just a hint of ink-stained panic.

She’s spent years writing columns for a variety of newspapers and magazines. These days, she appears in The Epoch Times and Quadrant, when not buried under a mountain of PhD papers, valiantly attempting to complete a doctorate in Creative Writing while her cat judges her from the printer.

Her dream life includes tabby cats who don’t walk across keyboards, bottomless cups of teh tarik, and a standing booking for remedial massages by a man named Yuri who brings his own towels, color-coded by mood and who smells faintly of liniment and optimism.