10.01.2025


Humor Writer of the Month: Nicole Beckley

Nicole Beckley

Nicole Beckley is an award-winning writer whose fiction has appeared in the Jabberwock Review, New Limestone Review, Fiction Southeast and elsewhere. Her short stories have been finalists for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the StoryQuarterly Prize, and her humor writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw and The Belladonna. 

Her first book, the comedic novel Torsos of Desire, has been released as an audio series

She’s contributed jokes to the Austin Film Festival awards, written for the El Arroyo sign and performed hundreds of improv and sketch comedy shows. 

Originally from El Paso, Texas, she’s a graduate of Stanford University.