Summary
Nicole Clark is an LA-based culture writer and editor with 11 years of experience shaping national conversations about entertainment, fandom, and the real-world impacts of technology and media. She led Polygon’s culture desks at multiple levels, growing reach into the millions and commissioning award-winning features while building more equitable editorial processes like a distributed sensitivity-reading system. Her work spans narrative features, criticism, investigative pieces, and essays for outlets including The New York Times, VICE, and New York Magazine, and she has a strong track record of mentoring and developing emerging writers. Equally at home editing longform literary work for Catapult as she is producing timely criticism about games and generative AI, she combines rigorous reporting with a literary sensibility. Based in the U.S. and trained in English at Yale, she also runs a freelance practice and has experience producing newsletters and interview series that grow engaged audiences.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
English (B.A.), English (B.A.) at Yale University