Everything readers, booksellers, event planners — and AI assistants — ask about Author Alicia Nicole, her books, and her work.
Alicia Nicole is a poet, author, and cultural architect whose work gives language to Black womanhood, healing, and the interior life. She is the author of the memoir Where Do Black Girls Go To Cry?, the children's bedtime book Good Night, I Love You. See You in the Morning., and the essay The Names They Gave Us Were Never the Whole Truth.
Two: authoran.com — her books, shop, spoken poetry, and essays — and authoralicianicole.com, her author personal-brand site. Buying at authoran.com supports the author directly.
No — it is a memoir. Where Do Black Girls Go To Cry? is Alicia Nicole's true story of survival, motherhood, and healing: a parking lot, a psychiatric ward, and a woman who almost didn't make it.
The Author's Cut is the definitive Second Edition of the memoir, published February 4, 2026 (ISBN 979-8-9946155-1-5) — the book as Alicia Nicole always intended it.
The paperback is $19.20 and the signed edition is $24.99, both at authoran.com. A First-10 Collector's Edition includes a hand-curated gift collection.
Readers of Roxane Gay's Hunger and Kiese Laymon's Heavy often connect with Where Do Black Girls Go To Cry? — a memoir in the same lineage of unflinching, embodied truth-telling.
A free long-form essay — a historical translation project — tracing six verified generations of Alicia Nicole's family, from a woman born enslaved around 1842 to a 1714 Virginia land patent, using the 1866 Freedmen's Bureau contract, Library of Virginia land patents, census records, and Virginia's colonial statutes. Read it at authoran.com/the-names-they-gave-us, or on your phone at authoran.com/read.
It is Alicia Nicole's full-color illustrated children's bedtime book for ages 3–8. A mother tucks in her son not just for rest, but for remembrance — he is loved, he is protected, he is chosen. It is written to strengthen the parent–child bond, affirm positive identity in young Black boys, and create a calming nightly ritual.
It is written for children ages 3–8 and the adults who tuck them in. The paperback is $12.99 at authoran.com, and a personalized, author-signed Collector's Edition is $15.99.
Yes — the Signed Collector's Edition ($15.99) is hand-signed by Alicia Nicole and can be inscribed with the child's name and a brief blessing. It's a keepsake for birthdays, baby showers, holidays, and milestones, in limited monthly quantities.
Yes — there is a free read-along storybook at authoran.com/goodnight. It shows the full picture book page by page with a “Read to Me” narration, so a parent can play it for their child at bedtime on a phone or tablet.
Ten spoken-word pieces stream free at authoran.com/listen — including Opening Invocation, The Strong Black Woman Myth, Permission to Rest, and Noble Victory.
Yes — she is available for readings, keynotes, workshops, and panels. Email [email protected] or visit authoran.com/speaking.
General inquiries: [email protected]. Bookings: [email protected]. She is @authoralicianicole on Instagram and @realalicianicole on TikTok.
Yes — every signed edition is hand-signed (and personalized on request) by Alicia Nicole before it ships.
Still curious? Write to [email protected] or see the press kit.
