Nicki Heinen is a writer and artist born in Saarlouis, Germany. She moved to Birmingham, UK, aged 6. Now London based, she was joint winner of the Barbara Wrigley Prize at Girton College, Cambridge University, and
completed an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College in 2012.
Her work has been published in a variety of print and on-line magazines and anthologies, including

Bloodaxe’s Staying Human anthology, Poetry Wales, PN Review, Magma, Butcher’s Dog, Anomalie, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Strix, Rising, Spontaneous Poetics, Culture Matters’ Witches, Warriors and Workers and The Cry of the Poor, and Bad Betty Press’ The Dizziness of Freedom and Alter Egos.

She was shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize and was commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize 2018 and 2020.

Tentacular Magazine Issue 7 was co-edited by Nicki with Jo Davis.

Her pamphlet Itch was launched with Eyewear Publishing in 2017 and was a London Review Bookshop book of the year.

There May Not Be a Reason Why, her debut collection, is published by Verve Poetry Press.