
Nicola Davison
BIOGRAPHY
Nicola Davison is an author and portrait photographer, living in Dartmouth. She studied English at Dalhousie University and was on the board of directors with the WFNS from 2017 to 2020.
In 2016, she completed the Alistair Macleod Mentorship Program, polishing her first novel, In the Wake, with Carol Bruneau. It won the Margaret & John Savage First Book award, the Miramichi Reader’s Best First Book award and was a finalist for the Dartmouth Book Award.
Her second novel Decoding Dot Grey (March, 2022) is a coming-of-age story about a quirky young woman working at an animal shelter, struggling to find a connection with the world.
PUBLICATIONS
In the Wake, Decoding Dot Grey
Nimbus Publishing
AWARDS2019 Margaret & John Savage First Book, 2019 The Miramichi Reader’s Best First Book
