Summer Session #5

Sept 16 - Sept 27

Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Nicole Saldarriaga, whose fiction explores family, memory, identity, and the supernatural through emotionally layered storytelling.

Nicole Saldarriaga

Nicole Saldarriaga

Nicole Saldarriaga is a Colombian-American writer based in New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in Epiphany, The Hunger, and The Sarah Lawrence Review. She has an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Felipe P. De Alba fellow and taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. While at Catwalk, Nicole will complete her first novel, which follows a young woman haunted by her abuela’s ghost. To heal her family’s generational curse, she must finally bridge the gap between her assimilated American life and the mystical secrets her mother and aunts have spent decades trying to bury.

Affiliation: Columbia