Nichole Perkins is an author, poet, and podcaster who writes about the intersections of pop culture, race, sex, gender, and relationships. Her memoir Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be covers Black womanhood and sexuality, online message board communities, and the effects of pop culture on female desire. Nichole is a 2016 Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow for poetry, a 2017 Audre Lorde Fellow at the inaugural Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat, and a 2017 BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellow. She is the current host of The Godmother, an iHeartMedia podcast, and the former host of Thirst Aid Kit, a Slate podcast about pop culture and desire, The Prince Mixtape, a CNN podcast about the life and legacy of Prince, and This Is Good For You, a podcast about guilty pleasures. Her first collection of poetry, Lilith, but Dark, was published by Publishing Genius, and she is currently writing her first romance novel.

“Poet and podcast host Perkins (Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be) delivers a fun overview of swoon-worthy male protagonists in literature—from Shakespeare’s Romeo to Twilight’s Edward Cullen…Perkins is an apt tour guide through the romance genre, offering funny remarks and references to common tropes. Romance fans of all ages will find this a delight.”—Publishers Weekly