BIO

A writer and photographer, Nico received her BA as a Riggio Honors Writing and Democracy Scholar at The New School; her undergraduate thesis (supervised by prominent cultural critic, Greil Marcus) chronicled the criminal history of expressive dance culture in New York. Nico's dissertation for the MA programme in Education in Arts and Cultural Settings from King's College London continued these explorations by focusing on the criminalization of rave and underground dance music culture throughout the UK, with a concentration on the capital city, since the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994. 

Upon completing an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, Nico relocated to Los Angeles, where she works in education and is currently juggling two long-form writing projects: a novel centered on underground dance culture and the art world, and a screenplay about straight-edge culture and militant veganism in ’90s-era Salt Lake City.