Nicola Harwood is a writer, theatre and interdisciplinary artist. Her projects are often concerned with the hidden histories of places, peoples, women and queers. Her writing ranges from tragic to comic with her favourite bits veering at break-neck speed between the two. She has won a few awards, appeared in various literary journals and her performance and installation projects have been produced in cities in Canada, Europe and the USA. Current projects include a production of her play, Buffalo Girls (2016-17) with Frank Theatre of Vancouver and Temple of Our Madness (2015-2020), a series of interactive installations about women, animals and girls. Recent projects include High Muck-a-Muck: Playing Chinese, a web-based collaborative poetry project (highmuckamuck.ca); KHAOS, the libretto for a new opera and Salmon Row and Letters from Lithuania, both site-specific plays commissioned by Mortal Coil Performance Society. She lives in Vancouver, Canada with her girlfriend and her girlfriend’s two children and their dog and teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.