Nicole Hebdon is a writer from Western New York, where she works as the Director of Literary Arts at the rural nonprofit The Springville Center for the Arts. Primarily a short story writer, her work has been published in The Kenyon Review, The New Haven Review, The Saranac Review, Carve and Joyland among other places. She is the winner of a 2025 editor’s choice award from Pinky Thinker Press, the 2024 Robert Colley Prize for fiction, and the 2023 Micro fiction prize from Thirty West Publishing.

When not working on her own writing, she writes a series of local author features and visual artist features for three newspapers owned by Neighbor-to-Neighbor news. She has been a reader or editor for Split Lit Press, The Southampton Review, The Saranac Review, Ducklake Books, and Just Buffalo Literary Center’s Transmissions, and is the creator of The Springville Center for the Art’s publication The Rustic Review.

She has taught creative writing at SUNY Stony Brook, Sylvan Learning, The Just Buffalo Literary Center, and at various community festivals. She received her MFA from SUNY Stony Brook, and her thesis was named a finalist in the 2017 Serendipity Literature Discovery Contest.

She is represented by Laura Gruszka at Writers House.