Posted on Thursday, September 1, 2011 by Jim Norrena
Nikki Thompson is a poet, book artist (aka Deconstructed Artichoke Press), and happily failed architect. She fled Southern California for UC Berkeley, where she earned a degree in architecture and edited Berkeley Fiction Review.
In 2001 she was awarded the All College Honors in Graduate Writing from CCA. She remained in the Bay Area and completed the MFA Program in Writing in 2002.
Nikki has worked extensively with Small Press Traffic and the San Francisco Center for the Book. She currently teaches special education at South San Francisco Unified School District, while residing in San Francisco's Bernal Heights with her pitbull, Billie Holiday.