Nicole will create an audiobook project based on a book of poems she has written entitled “Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems.” The process for the audiobook is basically creating an experimental piece that derives from her collection of poetry based on the experiences of Black women as well as her observations on her own experiences being a large, Black woman in American society. The TEAM lab will be used to record her voice while she recites her poems, utilizing different effects to transform each piece into its own individual work of art. After the project is complete she plans on touring the project with her performance work as well as distributing it on her Soundcloud page. She also plans on some live performances of the work as well.
Nicole Goodwin is the author of Warcries, as well as the 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow as well as the 2013- 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow. She published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parenting blog Motherlode. Additionally, her work ‘”Desert Flowers” was shortlisted and selected for performance by the Women’s Playwriting International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.