Nicole Walker grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She graduated from Reed College with her Bachelor of Arts, and the University of Utah with her Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2000) and Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing (2006).
She is Vice President of the NonfictioNOW Conference,[1] board member for Northern Arizona Book Festival, and nonfiction editor of the online literary journal, DIAGRAM.
Her book, Egg, is part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series.
[4] In addition to her book projects, Walker has written nearly one hundred letters to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey.
Her Letters to Ducey now appear regularly at the Arizona Daily Sun.
[6] On August 18, 2022, Walker's autobiographical piece about the sexual assaults upon her by a 14-year-old boy and her subsequent abortion at age 11 was published by the New York Times.
She felt compelled to tell that difficult story in the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States' reversing of Roe v. Wade (1973), and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) in its June 24, 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Award[8] Independent Press Silver Medal.