Nicole Zhu is a writer and engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Catapult, Eater, Electric Literature, The Lumiere Review, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2022 Pigeon Pages Flash Contest and is a 2023-2024 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow. She has received support from Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.