NICOLE KELLY FKA NK
cultural journalism
& Plutonian transits
& Black Weirdoism
& laughing through the pain
CURRENTLY Story editor of the The Anti Trans Hate Machine and the host, producer, and sound designer of Basket Case, a podcast about the sociopolitical conditions causing the mental health crisis.
PREVIOUSLY My fiction appeared in ZZYZZVA, Fiction Southeast, Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere. I was a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow.
I was the programming director at the Feminist Center for Creative Work, where I edited Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication for Co-Conspirator Press.
I produced and co-hosted bitchface, an experimental audio series. bitchface produced the 2020 season of The Heart. The season was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The Guardian and The Atlantic Magazine. It was called “a shockingly intimate portrait of what it means to be alive in a human body” in the New York Times.
As an independent audio producer, I produced some stories for VICE’s Source Material. I was the senior producer of Black Mountain Radio, a community & artist driven radio program (and a Believer magazine collab). I worked as a researcher + development producer for The Mash Up Americans.
I was the story editor on the award winning first season of the Zim-Australian audio drama Private Affairs, and was a contributing story editor for Transmitter Media. I was a 2022 AIR Edit Mode Fellow.