LYDIA Y. NICHOLS

Lydia Y. Nichols is a multidisciplinary writer native to New Orleans. Her work explores the lived experience, ancestral memory, and historical imagery of race and their impacts on our mobility within the bio-social ecologies of the Americas. Lydia’s art criticism and creative non-fiction have been published in 64 Parishes, Bayou Brief, A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, theGrio.com, The Lens, Pelican Bomb, and Signals Magazine and on her now-inactive blog modern maroon. Independent Curators International, The National Performance Network, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the Platforms Fund, and A Studio in the Woods have supported her work with awards, a fellowship, and a residency. Lydia will make her playwrighting debut in Spring 2022 with Don’t Look Away, a speculative dark comedy audio drama, commissioned by No Dream Deferred NOLA Theater Company.