Bio

Nicole J. Caruth is a freelance writer and reporter living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She focuses on health and healing, delving into the physical and mental experiences that shape our lives. In 2024, she was a mental health reporting fellow at Civil Eats, exploring challenges faced by U.S. farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers.

A curator by training, Nicole’s writing career began at the Brooklyn Museum, where she managed the interpretation program, overseeing educational wall labels and learning materials for all exhibitions. Since then, her writing has appeared in ARTnews, C Magazine, Gastronomica, Hyperallergic, Public Art Review, two Phaidon Press volumes, and the anthology Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing. In 2019, Nicole received an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation to support her collaborative writing project, The Ostracon. Before that, she was founding editor of Art21 Magazine, a digital publication affiliated with the acclaimed PBS series Art in the Twenty-First Century.

Nicole received her bachelor's degree in art history from San Francisco State University and her master's in curatorial studies from Bard College. She is currently working towards a second master's degree in journalism, with a focus on public health, at the University of California, Berkeley. Nicole is also a certified health coach at Burnout Liberation, where she helps exhausted professionals of color recover from burnout and navigate career transitions.