Nicolle Elizabeth began publishing online in 2003 when she wrote an article on Write To Eat, a graffiti collective in Boston which helps inner city artists get to college. She was a writer way before that though she won her first writing contest when she was 8 it was in the paper. She has since written for and/or had work appear in Best Women's Travel Writing, Words Without Borders, The National Book Critics Circle blog, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, The Faster Times, 3:AM UK, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, HTMLGiant, Noo Journal, Juked, Wigleaf, elimae, Ampersand, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Caketrain, Night Train, SIR!, The Good Men Project, Robot Melon, Weave, Every Day Fiction, Necessary Fiction, Matter Press, Spork, Big Lucks, The Very Beautiful Women Anthology, Dark Sky, Anderbo, Birds of Lace, PANK, The Collagist, Nano Fiction and many other publications. Her chapbooks have been published by Dark Sky, Keyhole/Dzanc, Publishing Genius and she was the Baltimore Urbanite's 2008 fiction contest winner, one of the three 2011 PANK Chapbook contest winners, and the Rose Metal Press 2012 Chapbook Contest 2nd Runner-up. She ran Fictionaut's interviews column for three years and was a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee. She won the National Haiku Contest in 2007 and has had many impressive some would say clearly the best writing of all time articles, essays, reviews, interviews and stories published, some of which are listed below. She is on year two of running an interviews column at The Believer's tumblr called Go Forth. A documentary featuring her regarding the bicycle collective where she was a mechanic won an Emmy. She was once a product tester for Allure Magazine's Best of Beauty Issue. She is the Poetry Editor of Word Riot, Inc. She is and has always been a fiction writer foremost. Her email is listen i hear you at gmail dot com listenihearyou@gmail.com is how that would look if you would like to email her and her favorite color is clear. Below are links to some of her work. The sentences below start with I for a reason, people.
2014:
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is a previous review of the older version of the book 30 of my female contemporaries and myself are to be in which is the SpuytenDuvil Press anthology of women experimental writers. i am the youngest contributor and quite honored to be included with andrea scrima, for example. if you are ever in the metropolitan museum of art, check out the permanent collection in the modern art wing, she has some work in there.
2013:
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should you be interested in 1960s experimental poetry written in Urdu, i have written about a translation of a collection of one for htmlgiant
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is a version of some excerpts of my novel in progress at the brooklyn rail. yay.
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i wrote about the new bhagavad gita translation. ww norton has been tweeting about that. well, that was flattering.
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i interviewed Tarun Tejpal regarding his new novel from Melville House for the Brooklyn Rail. Via a Blackberry.
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my friend and illustrator Erik Kraft and I are doing a webcomic called Cats In The Alley. They are punk rock cats who live in an alley and read a lot.
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i talked about the dear Michael Kimball's new book over at HTMLGiant.
2012:
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i interviewed listener for the rail poorly. really phoned it in with that one.
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i have a poem in this issue of Juked. they are great.
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i have some flash in the current issue of NANO out now.
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SPD which is the definitive distributor of all books indie asked me and some writers to write about some of our faves.
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i run a bi-weekly column for The Believer at the tumblr called Go Forth. The Atlantic called us "fantastic" at their Tumblr this week.
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i interviewed the wonderful ms. penina roth about readings for the brooklyn rail
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is a quick review of brian carr's great novel told in flash from holler presents for the brooklyn rail.
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also, i did a review of justin sirois becoming the writer of the next Lost kind of tv show at HTMLGiant. trust me i have an eye for this kind of thing.
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is me reviewing over at HTMLGiant.
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are some new poems i was in a minimalism mood.
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happy to have reviewed justin sirois' novel about Fallujah out now from Publishing Genius as well as interviewed him over at the LARB: here
i interviewed john reed for bomb. for ten pages: here
i am honored to have a piece in this issue of elimae here
i have a poem in this issue of Ampersand here
i was honored to be interviewed about revision at necessary fiction here
happy dave shaw asked me to make a mixtape for lit mixtapes here
happy to be up at thousand shades of gray with a small series of flash pieces here
What an honor to be returning to the Wigleaf top 50 list this year after a two year hiatus off the list. It is particularly an honor to represent the now retired Night Train Magazine, which remains a fine, fine publication.here
omg i have an art book out from keyhole today. it is an art book it you can have it here here
i am happy to have some minimalism in this issue of elimae: here
mike meginnis interviewed me at exits are for approx 3 hours: here
the very talented great fiction writer robert lopez hosts me at his blog today here
I have written a review of Gowanus Atropolis for The Believer which can be read in the February issue in print as well as here
I am a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee in Fiction representing The Good Men Project for this story here
I have a short story about folklore in this issue of The Brooklyn Voice here
I have a prose poem in the January issue of elimae here
I am the first e-book from Dark Sky Press in history. It can be purchased for 3.99 here
The wonderful writer Kathy Fish has reviewed my first e-book from Dark Sky Press in history here She says I am sad and funny, which is so my life. Ryan Ridge mentioned he liked this book at Dzanc recently which was so nice here and Matt Bell also mentioned this book recently, which is so nice. here
I placed 2nd runner up in this year's Rose Metal Press annual chapbook contest which can be read about here
I had three short fiction pieces in Spork as edited by Powell's//Future Tense Kevin Sampsell here
BOMBMAG called they said you are going to review Tin House co-founder/editor/Vanity Fair contributor Elissa Schappell's short story collection, and i said UM, HELLO? and they said, k great we're sending the book now. i wrote the review and they said, you go girl now you are going to interview her, and i said UM, HELLO? You can read that here
I have a short story in this way dark first issue of Heavy Feather which right now is on the top 10 best seller anthology list at amazon.com here
hi for like five years i have published this thing: here
2011:
I was in Best Women's Travel Writing 2011 here
I write about books at The Brooklyn Rail sometimes here and here and here and here and here
Publishing Genius Published an e-chapbook of my poetry it is available here
Electric Literature had me cover the HTMLGIANT event at AWP DC but via email here
I had a long prose poem in elimae here
I had a short story in Every Day Genius here
Ladies Home Journal interviewed us travel writers in brief here
I had a short story in Matter Press here
I had a fiction list in Noo Journal here
Sometimes I write about books at The Faster Times here
I solved the Voynich Manuscript at The Rumpus here
We Who Are About To Die asked me to interview J Bradley here
Before becoming the poetry editor at Word Riot I wrote fiction there here
I sometimes write about music at 3 AM UK which is published in the UK here
I Am A Party listed me as one of the power 25 in internet publishing here
I had a short story in Big Lucks here
I had a short story in Night Train here
I had a poem in elimae here
I had a short story in The Very Beautiful Women Anthology here
I had a short story about football in the gridiron Burnt Bridge issue which I think was also the back cover of the book itself here
2010:
I did a little blogging for the National Book Critics Circle here
I wrote about books at The Brooklyn Rail here and here and here and here
Dark Sky interviewed me about writing here
From 2009-2011 I was the weekly check-in columnist at Fictionaut. Here Are 50+ quickie interviews I did for them here
I participated in a community cookbook and HTMLGiant let me mention it here we were on the cooking channel and everything
I had a short story in Night Train here
I did an interview for The Faster Times here
I wrote about being sick at The Rumpus here
I wrote about women singing the blues in New York at The Rumpus here
I broke the record for most stories in one year at Wigleaf here and here and here and here and here
2009:
I had a short story published at Anderbo here
I interviewed my friend about music at The Brooklyn Rail here
I wrote about books at The Brooklyn Rail here
I had a short story at elimae here and here and here
I had a short story at Night Train here
I had a short story in Wigleaf here
I interviewed my friend about music for 2 AM UK here
It has been my great honor to write about translated literature so much for Words Without Borders here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here
I had a short story in the inaugural issue of Kill Author here
I had a short story in Caketrain Issue 07 here
I had some poetry in Sawbuck here
2008:
I won the Baltimore Urbanite's fiction contest here
I had a short story in elimae here
I had some prose poetry in SIR here
I had a short story Right Hand Pointing here
I had a short story in Robot Melon here
I had a short story in Weave here
I had a short story in Wigleaf here
2007:
I won the 2007 National Haiku Contest which was sponsored by the Aurorean here
I got into writing about architecture for one of Frank Gehry's lead designers here
I had a short story in Night Train here
2003-2006:
I wrote about music and fashion at www.karmaloop.com and www.skopemagazine.com while applying to grad schools for an mfa in fiction.
-sorry woulda done more but i've been working on a novel this whole time.
