Bio

Nicole J. Caruth is a freelance writer and journalist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She focuses on health, exploring the physical and mental experiences that affect how humans function and relate to each other. In 2024, she was a mental health reporting fellow at Civil Eats, researching the challenges faced by America’s farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers.

Earlier in her career, Nicole wrote about social justice issues through the lens of art, addressing topics such as gentrification, maternal mortality, police violence, and food apartheid. 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 and the founder of Burnout Liberation, where she helps exhausted professionals of color recover from burnout and navigate career transitions.