Nikki Addison
Biography
Nikki Addison is from West Auckland, New Zealand. She has a Master of Arts in English and began her career as a magazine journalist. She loves cats, coffee and hiking, and her hero is Barack Obama. The inspiration for The Year I Turned Thirty came after she quit her job and embarked on a seven-month road trip across the United States in 2022. Many of the events in the book are based on real life.
