Nicole M. Wolverton is a fear enthusiast and Pushcart-nominated writer who makes the uncanny feel like a strange, familiar houseguest. Raised in the rural hinterlands of northeast Pennsylvania, she spent childhood nights imagining what lurked in the cornfields outside her window, a curiosity that only grew when she moved to Philadelphia.

Nicole writes speculative fiction, horror, and thrillers that revel in the uncanny and the deliciously unsettling. She is the author of the forthcoming MEAT SWEATS, a YA vegetarian-turned-accidental-cannibal novel (Horrorsmith Publishing, Aug 2026), A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS (CamCat Books/Baker & Taylor, July 2024), and THE TRAJECTORY OF DREAMS (Bitingduck Press, 2013). She served as Editor/Curator of BODIES FULL OF BURNING (Sliced Up Press, 2021), the first short-story anthology to examine horror through the lens of menopause. Her short works of literary, horror, and creative nonfiction shows up in 50+ anthologies, magazines, and podcasts.

She lives in a creaky hundred-year-old (plus) house near Philadelphia with her long-suffering husband and a goofy rescue dog named Myrtle. Nicole holds a B.A. in English from Temple University and an M.L.A. in storytelling, horror, and society from the University of Pennsylvania, and she’s currently pursuing a Masters of Philosophy in gastrohorror. When not writing, she’s a magazine assistant editor, speechwriter, ardent traveler (24+ countries), and dragon-boat steersperson and coach.

She still wonders what creeps in the dark.