NICOLE KELLY FKA NK
Nicole Kelly (NK) is a writer, audio producer, and award winning story editor whose work has been featured by platforms including ZZYZZVA, VICE, Afropunk, and The Heart, and has been called both “visceral” and “shockingly intimate.” She is the creator, host, and producer of a documentary series called Basket Case, from iHeart Radio & Molten Heart. The series was an International Women’s Podcast Award finalist.
SIGNAL AWARD WINNER
ANTI TRANS HATE MACHINE S3 won BEST LGBTQ+ PODCAST (SILVER) and BEST ACTIVISM, PUBLIC SERVICE, & SOCIAL IMPACT SERIES (GOLD)
BEST NEW VOICES MENTOR 2025
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL CREATOR'S MARKET
I developed two limited series with Molten Heart for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2025 Creator’s Market. The concepts were pitched by Basket Case executive producer Jazmine T Green as part of a select cohort of “selected storytelling teams who are using their original sensibilities to deliver form-pushing works.” (Indie Wire)
NEON TOUCH X IN THE DARK: SEX
Neon Touch was featured in the listening salon series IN THE DARK, curated by Adam Zmith at the Looking Glass Social Club in Shoreditch, London. Through sound, sex is revealed as an experience of identity, community and power, and a celebration of the differences of our bodies. This story was originally made for The Heart.
INTERVIEW: BE WELL, SIS
You’re Not a Basket Case: Reclaiming Your Mental Wellness with NK | Be Well, Sis Podcast
WEBBY AWARD WINNER
ANTI TRANS HATE MACHINE S2 won BEST LIMITED SERIES 2024
AIR (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENTS IN RADIO) EDIT MODE FELLOW
INTERVIEW: THE WERKING WRITER'S PODCAST
Nicole Kelly On Self-Sabotage, Ego Death, & Becoming a Working Writer | WWP No. 17
INTERVIEW: TELLING STORIES
#7: Nicole Kelly | Telling Stories Podcast
KIMBILIO FICTION FELLOW
MFA PROGRAMS IN WRITING AT UC IRVINE
My fiction appeared in ZZYZZVA, Carolina Quarterly, and Fiction Southeast, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2016.
WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF DEATH
We don’t talk about the possibility of death was made for THE GOLDEN TAPE, an interactive sound installation curated by Kristina Loring for XMTR Festival (Saint Leonards-on-sea, England) 2025. Five artists were invited to respond to AI encroaching on art in the digital realm by creating a piece for physical media. The installation responds with a collection of tape cassettes, and my piece conveys the experiences of ritual, dying, and grieving with intimate recordings from 2020.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S PODCAST AWARD FINALIST
Not the person anyone wants to be, an episode of Basket Case, was nominated for an International Women’s Podcast Award for Compelling Storytelling. Listen to the episode.