Nicole Haroutunian is the author of Choose This Now (Noemi Press, forthcoming March 2024) and the short story collection, Speed Dreaming (Little a, 2015). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Tupelo Quarterly, the Bennington Review, Joyland, Post Road, Pigeon Pages, Tin House’s Open Bar, and elsewhere. As an editor of Underwater New York, she co-curated the literary work for a book by Elizabeth Albert entitled Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront (Damiani Editore 2016). With Apryl Lee, Nicole co-founded Halfway There, a reading series in Montclair, NJ. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

As a freelance writer, Nicole has written sleep stories Audible and podcast episodes for Rebel Girls.

She is Senior Museum Educator at the American Folk Art Museum and educator at the Noguchi Museum.

She lives with her husband, Dan Selzer, and daughter, Opal Judith, in Woodside, Queens.

instagram: @nicoleharoutunianwriter