About
Nikki Loftin is a writer and native Texan who lives just outside Austin, Texas, with her two boys, two dogs, nine chickens, and one very patient husband. She writes Middle Grade novel-length fiction as well as personal essays, puppet plays, articles, poems, and short stories. Nikki is represented by Suzie Townsend of Nancy Coffey Literary Agency. Her debut novel, THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY, will be published by Razorbill (Penguin) in Summer 2012.
Nikki is the winner of the 2009 Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript Contest and the 1998 John Graves Writing Competition, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin graduate writing program (MA, ’98). She has been a popcorn seller, waitress, bookstore employee, Music and Gifted/Talented teacher, and a Director of Family Ministries.
Nikki teaches Zumba dance/aerobics in a mostly vain attempt to combat the ever-threatening Writer’s Butt. When under extreme stress, or on submission with a novel, she bakes obsessively as a coping technique. Her favorite food/obsession is ice cream, preferably Blue Bell Moo-llenium Crunch. On very good days, she prefers writing even to ice cream.
