| NICOLE R. ZIMMERMAN was a 2020 recipient of the Discovered Awards for Emerging Literary Artists, a program produced by Creative Sonoma and funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and is an alumna of Lit Camp. Her writing, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays, appears in newspapers, anthologies, and literary journals including the Los Angeles Times, The Best Women's Travel Writing, and Creative Nonfiction. Nicole has worked as a freelance reporter for Petaluma Patch, as a Towns correspondent for The Press Democrat, and as a copywriter for Grove Collaborative, Hipcamp, and Viator, a Tripadvisor company. She is a certified AWA Affiliate, leading writing workshops using the Amherst Writers & Artists method. She is working on a memoir titled Just Some Things We Can’t Talk About, a manuscript she aims to publish with a small press. |  | |
She is the owner of Pencil & Pen, which offers a mutually supportive writing community and mentoring support through creative writing workshops. |
Nicole R. Zimmerman’s essays are infused with love, tenderness and a very sharp eye. She writes about her family, and in telling their stories, captures their world, their era, and her own deep connection to each relative. Zimmerman has an arsenal of literary tools at her disposal. Her prose shimmers. She chooses the perfect revealing detail as she captures someone’s childhood. Her dialogue is often surprising and spot-on; we hear and learn these characters through their very real conversations. And she shapes her essays dramatically so we feel the energy and drive of each story.
Zimmerman is ambitious and dedicated to her art.
