Nikki McCormack

Outside of her career as an author, Nikki is a professional technical and creative writer, spider wrangler, animal lover, and devoted cat mom. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories has been a lifelong passion for her. She loves to draw on her myriad life experiences, doing everything from wild cave exploration and competitive horseback endurance riding to practicing iaido and archery. She invites you to join her on some fantastic adventures.

2025 Finalist (4th place overall) in the Book Blogger Novel of the Year Awards (BBNYA) for Child of Vanris.

2025 Finalist (still in progress) for the Ozma Fantasy Fiction Award for Child of Vanris.

2018 Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for The Keeper

2016 Finalist for the Cygnus Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Award for Dissident

2015 Grand Prize Winner of the Dante Rossetti Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Girl and the Clockwork Cat

2009 Writers of the Future finalist with the short story In Silence Waiting.

NOTE: No generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been or will be used in the creation of my books.