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About MeNikita David is an emerging writer based in Naarm whose work spans poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and essays. Her writing moves across forms while remaining grounded in a sustained exploration of the body as a site of tension, desire, contradiction, and ethical instability. She is particularly interested in posthumanism, eroticism, moral relativism, South Asian femininity, and trauma, often examining how intimacy and violence coexist within personal and cultural narratives.

Her work engages with the porous boundaries between self and other, flesh and abstraction, inheritance and autonomy. Drawing on both lived experience and critical inquiry, she interrogates how power, sexuality, and memory shape subjectivity. Through layered, sensorial language, Nikita’s writing resists fixed moral positions, instead dwelling in ambiguity and emotional complexity.

Her work has appeared in Cordite Journal, Bending Journals, and Petal Magazine. Across genres, she is committed to writing that feels urgent, embodied, and formally attentive, exploring what it means to inhabit a body marked by history, longing, and contradictio