nicole a clark
nicole a clark
Nicole Clark is a freelance culture writer and editor
 

Nicole Clark (she/her) is an LA-based Culture Editor at Polygon.

Her work can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Vox, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vice, New York Magazine, NBC, IGN, Polygon, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has been on NPR’s KCRW, BBC Radio 5 Live, and Waypoint Radio; hosted a panel at San Diego Comic Con; and acted as a judge in WGA’s Digital News category. Nicole has attended Poynter’s Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media and was part of the Power of Diverse Voices cohort. She was a Society for Features Journalism Diversity Fellow. She is a proud member of AAJA.

From 2019 - 2023, Nicole was a Contributing Editor at Catapult. And in 2020, Nicole executive produced Freelancing With Tim, a series of Zoom panels about the business of freelancing.

Prior to freelancing, Nicole worked as a culture writer and critic at VICE. Before that, she served as interim editor-in-chief at The Bold Italic, a digital Bay Area culture magazine. She has also worked as a bookseller at a local bookshop!

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