Wildhood, M. Nicole R.: - m.nicole.r.wildhood is a freelance writer who grew up in a small suburb of Denver, Colorado and moved to Seattle when she was 20 years old after being the first in her family to drop out of college. When she did finish, she received a Bachelor of Arts in theology from Seattle Pacific University. Her blog, meganwildhood.com discusses politics, poverty, mental health and disability, with a particular focus on the unsustainability of the pursuit of individualism. She aspires to create a body of work that advocates for and itself emanates social and ecological justice. m.nicole.r.wildhood's poetry, fiction and short nonfiction have appeared in The Atlantic, The Atticus Review, a great weather for MEDIA anthology and other anthologies, as well as The Sun, Ballard: A Journal of Street Poetry and Forage Poetry, among others. She was a finalist for America Magazine's annual Foley Poetry Contest and received a Top-25 honorable mention in Glimmer Train's annual short fiction contest, both in 2016. She has been a registered scuba diver and saxophone player for over half of her life; both of these interests have afforded her the opportunity to travel. A particularly memorable trip, she was selected as a rising high-school senior for a national honor band and got to tour Western Europe performing in Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna, Luxembourg and other cities. She currently writes for Seattle's street newspaper Real Change and is at work on a novel, short stories and several poetry projects, including one in Spanish.