Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Mr. Suicide and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. Various reviewers have described her work as "brutal," "cerebral," "transgressive," "taboo," "groundbreaking," and "mind-bending." Rue Morgue magazine recently included Nicole in its list of 13 Wicked Women to Watch, praising her as "an intense and uncompromising literary voice." She has also garnered praise from Jack Ketchum, Thomas Ligotti, and Poppy Z. Brite (aka, Billy Martin). Nicole lives and works in Indiana.