Nordette N. Adams grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her poetry has appeared in Rattle Magazine, Quaint, About Place Journal, and Unlikely Stories Mark V. Her essays have been included or referenced in multiple books and journals such as the Social Issues in Literature series by Greenhaven Press, Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough: Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, and TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, as well as on news websites such as Blogher, HuffPost, Slate, Vox, USA Today, and the Washington Post. She received her MA in English and her MFA in poetry from the University of New Orleans in 2016.