Karen.Nicole.Mitchell.Writer.
I write experimental fiction, romantasy, nonfiction, lyrics, and poetry.
I am currently writing a deeply dystopian short novel, a work of fiction that is Romeo and Juliet set in Avatar, and I've recently completed a book on Black Mindfulness (awaiting publication). The themes of my current writing are experimental and invisible.
My writing has been published in Emrys Journal, House Rabbit Society, US News and World Report, Miscellany, The Charleston Chronicle, Medium (under the Mindfulness Jedi) and Penn Union. My writing has been broadcast on NPR London, the BBC in London, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, MHz Networks, Travel, WPFW, and Free Speech Radio News.
When I'm not writing, I'm usually: acting as PA to my two house bunnies, Knoll and Snow, noticing nature, reading books on my never ending TBR (@karennicoleisreading on Instagram or Goodreads), dancing, or watching the latest soap-driven fashion story from Alexis Bittar's Bitterverse.
Contact: nicolekarenisworking at gmail dot com
Libraries, Bookstores, and Mixtapes
Since I was eight, I checked out the maximum number of books from the public library. Bookstores and convenience stores with a book aisle were right up there with chunky Kit Kats, jelly sandals, and Bubble Yum. I'd read in bed, in deep closets propped up with a pillow, in the back seat of the car on road trips, and often with a flashlight as it was well past my pre-teen bedtime. The stories I read and the characters I'd meet validated me. The worlds characters lived in gave me hope for a different tomorrow. As a child and young adult, I didn't talk a whole lot with my mouth. I wrote, and I let my hands speak.
"A River in Time" nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize.
Published in the print magazine which is no longer available.
Nonfiction writing on mindfulness. I am also the founder of mindfulness organization Omm Office where I am known as The Mindfulness Jedi.
Academia
In 2017, I graduated from American University in Washington, DC, with an MA in Producing for Film, Television, and Radio. The scriptwriting courses were my favorite. Some of the pieces I wrote include a 30-minute animated film, "I am Plato," short film "Bipolar," and spec "American Dad: The Real Housewives of Langley Falls." A professor recreated a professional writing room, and we plotted how we'd tackle ABC "Designated Survivor." (We had not watched the series at the time.)
In 2016, I graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, with an MA in Science Writing. My first piece written in the program was nominated for a literary Pushcart Prize.
I also have a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism with Honors from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. My biology thesis was on how African-Diaspora people have the worst PR. My journalism thesis was a short film on ethics and the media. I focused on the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement in the US and the holocaust in Eastern Europe in the 1940s.
Membership
A small community of writers.