Nicole Smith is a writer, theatre creator, director, and producer, who splits her time between her homes in Cambridge, Ontario and St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her work as a playwright has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Shaw Festival, Green Light Arts, and Canadian Stage. She is co-Artistic Director of Girl Power Inc. in St. John’s, and founding Artistic Producer of Sonderlust, a KW-based theatre collective dedicated to the creation of original work and the staging of women’s stories. Her fiction has been published in a number of literary journals, and she is the 2021 first place recipient of the New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Award for her story Something Really Unbelievable. Nicole is currently at work on her first novel. She is also editorial assistant at TNQ and thrilled to get to discuss creativity at large with two of her favourite creators at this year’s Wild Writers Literary Festival.