Nichole Perkins is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee, currently based in Brooklyn.

Around the internet, Nichole writes about the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. Her memoir Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be (2021) covers black womanhood and sexuality, online messageboard communities, and the effects of pop culture on female desire.

Nichole is a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. She is also 2016 Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow for poetry. She has participated in the Napa Valley Writers' Conference (2010, 2013). 

She is the current host of The Godmother, an iHeartMedia podcast about Eunice Hunton Carter, one of New York’s first Black female prosecutors, who helped take down notorious mob boss Lucky Luciano. She has hosted The Prince Mixtape, a CNN podcast about the life and legacy of Prince. She was also the host of This Is Good For You, a podcast about finding pleasure in life. Nichole previously co-hosted Thirst Aid Kit, a podcast about pop culture and desire, with Bim Adewunmi. She was also one of the hosts of The Waves, a podcast that examines news and culture through a feminist lens. Both podcasts are at Slate. Her first collection of poetry, Lilith, but Dark, was published by Publishing Genius in July 2018. 

Although her first writing love is poetry, Nichole writes personal essays, cultural criticism, short stories, and screenplays. She also conducts high profile interviews for print, audio, and digital spaces. She is currently writing her first romance novel.

She loves Prince, romance novels, and the television show Frasier. She finds it difficult to write about herself in the third person.