Nicole Clark (she/her) is an LA-based writer and editor.

Nicole covers books, television, games, health, and technology — and is particularly interested in themes of intergenerational inheritance, power, and the inaccessibility of essential services.

Most recently, she ran the Culture section at Polygon, Vox Media’s games and entertainment digital news site, which published enterprise reporting, narrative features, and explainers. Before that, Nicole was a Culture Writer at VICE, and a Contributing Editor at literary magazine Catapult. Nicole was selected for Poynter’s Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media and was part of the Power of Diverse Voices cohort. She was also a Society for Features Journalism Fellow.

Her freelance reporting, interviews, essays, and criticism can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Vox, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, NBC, IGN, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

She also worked as a bookseller at a local bookshop! She reads everything but especially loves science fiction, kissing books, locked room mysteries, and nature memoirs.

You can find her on Bluesky, Goodreads, and Letterboxd.