Bio

Nicole Cushing is a Bram Stoker Award® winning novelist and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award.

Various reviewers have described her work as “cerebral”, “brutal”, “transgressive”, “wickedly funny”, “taboo”, “groundbreaking” and “mind-bending”.

Rue Morgue magazine  included Nicole in its list of 13 Wicked Women to Watch, praising her as an “an intense and uncompromising literary voice”.  She has also garnered praise from Brian Evenson, Jack Ketchum, Thomas Ligotti, and Poppy Z. Brite (aka, Billy Martin). 

Her second novel, A Sick Gray Laugh (2019) was named to LitReactor’s Best Horror Novels of the Last Decade list and the Locus Recommended Reading List. Her third novel, Mothwoman was released in late 2022. Cemetery Dance Publications will be releasing Nicole’s next novella, The Plastic Priest, in paperback and ebook editions in late 2023.

Nicole lives in Indiana.