Nicole J. Evans

Born and creatively nurtured in Los Angeles, Nicole J. Evans is an upcoming future best-selling Author. 

Some of the ingredients that comprise the creativity of Nicole Evans include : 

-Single-subject spiral notebooks

-4 color retractable pens

-Her father’s voice, photography, unrequited creativity, and unattained acclaim

-Her mother’s joy, dance, and poetry

-Hidden words chanted in Farsi

-The love, care, and prayers of her grandmothers

- well-worn copies of The Secret Garden, Jazz, and By The River Piedra, I Sat and Wept.

-The pragmatism, dedication, and vision of her grandfather

-Her Grandmama’s cornbread, corned beef and greens

-Her Nana’s perfume reserved for special occasions and directions for holiday decor

-Her Aunt Carol’s spaghetti and Auntie Judy’s monkey bread

-a dessert flavored with rosewater

-Her Uncle Glenn’s humor and music appreciation

-The cusp of the unfulfilled joy of her angel cousins

-The confidence and laughter of her Sisters

-The unexpressed love and passionate dreams of all preceding ancestors,

-the sanctity and selflessness of her lover’s affection,

-And the hopeful generosity of her daughter

-a trip across the world at just the right age

-the ability to encourage herself when the naysayers of the world might bank on her discouragement

-the ability to see the generational curses that she will end
 

A trained and experienced makeup artist and bourgeoning novelist, She writes for the same reason she paints faces:

The pleasure of seeing a particular beauty or feeling and translating for others to understand, appreciate and, perhaps, find a kinship connection that allows them to feel seen in this world but, also, valued and appreciated. Embraced…

 

She writes to explore the magic that makes the ordinary extraordinary and celebrate these parts of life from perspectives she knows intimately that often go unnoticed.

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