Hello, I’m Crystal Nikish.

And I write characters who think too much, feel too hard, and fall in love anyway.

I’m a marketing strategist by day and a writer of kissing books by late, late night. I hold an English bachelor’s and an MBA with a concentration in Data & Analytics and was a 2023 WriteHive mentee. My manuscript, The Boyfriend Variables, won second place in the Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Awards, in the Pre-published Contemporary Romance category. When I’m not writing, I enjoy perusing the Washington, DC restaurant scene, canning my own homemade strawberry jam, and trying to convince anyone that will listen that pop punk is not, in fact, dead.