Sheila Bunker Nickerson (born 1942) is an American poet and writer.
After attending the Chapin School, she went on to Bryn Mawr College, where she majored in English.
[2] She served as writer-in-residence for the State of Alaska Artists-in-the-Schools program, was writer-in-residence at the Alaska State Library, and was co-founder of University Within Walls, a statewide prison education program.
Nickerson's poems and essays have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies.
[4] Her 1996 nonfiction work Disappearance: A Map, is part personal memoir about the loss of a colleague and part nonfiction account of disappearances in Alaska, including Franklin's lost expedition in 1845, polar expeditions of Captain Bob Bartlett and Vilhjalmur Stefansson and more recent vanishings such as those of U.S.