Nicole Lachat was born in Edmonton, Canada to a Peruvian mother and Swiss father. In 2024 she received the Michael Waters Poetry Prize for her collection, The Red We Silk, which is forthcoming with Southern Indiana Review (2025). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing- Poetry at New York University. Her poetry appears in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Poets.org, Ruminate Magazine, One by Jacar Press, and BirdFeast Magazine, among others. She has literary reviews published with The Puerto Rico Review, SIR, and has contributed an essay to the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She was awarded the Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize and is a recipient of an Individual Arts Fellowship through the National Endowment for the Arts. Nicole is a Banff Arts Centre fellow. She is currently completing her PhD in English- Creative Writing (poetry) at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, where she teaches and works as the Book Prize Coordinator for Prairie Schooner and the African Poetry Book Fund. She currently lives in Lincoln.