Nicole C. Foster

member since 2023

Biography

Nicole C. Foster is a wellness and memoir writer, holding a Master’s in Psychology from Columbia’s Spirituality, Mind-Body Institute. She’s a national board-certified health and wellness coach and her first book, Courageous Well-Being for Nurses, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press this Fall.

Nicole has published personal essays, centered around the loss of her Dad on 9/11, in The Cut and Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper. Currently writing her memoir, she explores her experience navigating traumatic loss and grief and surviving leukemia. As a Jersey Shore local, she enjoys spending time at the beach and spoiling her pup, Ruby.

Instagram: @NicoleCFoster

Publications

Non-Fiction Book

• Courageous Well-Being for Nurses: Strategies for Renewal by Donna A. Gaffney and Nicole C. Foster, Johns Hopkins University Press

Personal Essays

• “My Father Was on the 99th Floor of the South Tower on 9/11. Here are 3 Lessons I’ve Learned About Healing in the Two Decades Since,” Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, September 10, 2022
• “I Lost My Dad on 9/11. I’m Still Searching for Who He Was,” The Cut, September 10, 2021