We are saddened to report Nichole L. Shields made her transition on Friday, April 10, 2009.

Award-winning poet Nichole L. Shields is the author of One Less Road To Travel: A Collection of Poetry and is a two-time Gwendolyn Brooks poetry winner. Ms. Shields is a co-founder of Chicago Writers Collective: A Community of Writers and was one of the organizers of I, Griot: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants www.chicagowriterscollective.net, a photograph of Black Writers in Chicago (October 2003). 

Currently working on her second collection of poetry entitled Cousin Rita, putting the finishing touches on her new line of greeting cards (avail. October 2005), Ms. Shields also works for Brooks Permission, the company managing the literary works of acclaimed poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

One Less Road To Travel: A Collection of Poetry
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Publisher: [s.n.] (1998)
Language: English
ISBN: 0966203607

Print Publications:

&The Iowa Review
&Nexus Publication
&Rhapsody
&Mosaic Literary Magazine
&BlackLines Architectural Magazine
&360° A Revolution of Black Poets
&bum rush the page: A Def Jam Anthology
&WarpLand
Until Freedom Rings for Mumia (CD)

Stage Performances includes:

·    Afrika West Bookstore
·    FrontLine International Bookstore
·    Chicago State University
·    Edna’s Soul Food Café—Friday poetry series
·    Third World Press/New Concept School (one of four organizers of the 24-Hour Poetry-Thon)
·    The DuSable Museum of African American History
·    The Third Floor Poets Forum
·    Kraft International Foods
·    Afrikan Festival of the Arts
·    Thread the Needle Television Program (all Chicago)
·    360° Reading: The University of Baltimore, College Park
·    Reciprocity Bookstore, Dallas, TX
·    Black Images Bookstore, Dallas
·    Broadside Press— Poetry Series (Detroit)
·    The Novotel Hotel (Dakar, Senegal)

Contact information for Nichole L. Shields:

P.O. Box 4377
Chicago, IL  60680

(312) 491.8256*
(312) 829.3676* Fax

nicholelshields at yahoo.com