Nicole Rivas

Nicole Rivas is the author of Tender Hoof: Stories (Thirty West Publishing, 2024) and the flash fiction chapbook A Bright and Pleading Dagger (Rose Metal Press, 2018). Her stories have been published in numerous journals including Longleaf Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and The Cincinnati Review: MiCRo Series, and her flash fiction has been anthologized in Best Microfiction (2019), The Best Small Fictions (2019), and W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America (2023). Nicole holds a BA in English from California State University San Bernardino and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Alabama. Originally from Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, Nicole is currently based in the Western Slope of Colorado.