Nicolette is a Wisconsin-raised science writer and poet with experience as a field technician in botany, stream ecology, agriculture and climate studies.

Polar regions and cold environments hold great significance for her, having lived and worked in Antarctica and on the Greenland Ice Sheet. In these spaces she’s held positions as a cafeteria steward, air transportation specialist (cargo), trades helper, and science technician.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Oregon State University, where she also worked as a communications specialist for the College of Engineering, and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Issue 10 of 45th Parallel.

Exploring the (micro)cosmic, she seeks an utter openness to wild unknowns. Her poetry is fable-making, psychological landscapes, science-speak, absurdity, and a chorus of the real and imagined. She wonders: what constitutes our emerging record(s) of understanding?

As a science writer, she focuses on community dynamics, anything related to ice and polar regions, human-land relationships, new technologies and transdisciplinary art-science collaborations.