Nicolette Stasko (born 1950) is a contemporary Australian poet, novelist and non-fiction writer of United States origin.
Nicolette Stasko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to Polish and Hungarian parents.
She separated from her husband, meeting the writer David Brooks with whom she has a daughter.
During this period she began writing in earnest and had her first poetry published in Australia in the journal Hecate.
[1] She has also published a non-fiction book entitled Oyster: From Montparnasse to Greenwell Point (2000) and most recently the novel The Invention of Everyday Life (2007).