Nicki Jack wrote for her careers in Public Education and Public Broadcasting and at 35, began a journal of her life in poetry. Retired, she writes daily, craving her keyboard as she used to crave powdered-sugar donuts filled with raspberry goo.
She is working on two book manuscripts and a collection of poems for children.
It is with pleasure that we post our third place winner in Writing It Real’s 2008 No-Contest Contest. Nicki narrates a Christmas morning in a way that goes beyond Christmas memories. She does a fine job of helping us see life through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl with two brothers. Her use of setting…
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