Born in Tallaght, Dublin, Nicola Pierce has worked and lived in Drogheda since 2011.
Pierce attended the Presentation Schools in Terenure and got an Arts Modular degree from University College Dublin.
In 2014 her second novel ‘City of Fate’, about World War Two’s Battle of Stalingrad, was considered for the Warwickshire Year Nine Book Award.
In the middle of writing her fifth children’s novel, in February 2018, Pierce was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, finally finishing treatment in 2019.
During that time, she released the non-fiction ‘Titanic, True Stories of Her Passengers, Crew and Legacy’.