Outside of her career as an author, Nikki is a professional technical and creative writer, spider wrangler, animal lover, and devoted cat mom. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories has been a lifelong passion for her. She loves to draw upon her myriad life experiences, doing everything from wild cave exploration and competitive horseback endurance riding to practicing iaido and archery. She invites you to join her on some fantastic adventures.

• Grand Prize Winner of the Dante Rossetti Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Girl and the Clockwork Cat

• Finalist in the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Awards (BBNYA) for Child of Vanris.

• Shortlisted for the Ozma Award for Fantasy Fiction for Child of Vanris.

• Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for The Keeper

• Finalist for the Cygnus Award for Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction for Dissident

• Writers of the Future finalist with the short story In Silence Waiting.

NOTE: No generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) has been or will be used in any part of the creation of my books.