Nicole Bailey-Williams is a high school English teacher, a freelance writer, and former host of "The literary Review," a book review show which aired from April 1998 to May 2007 on WDAS (1480 AM). In addition to writing for national publications like Publishers Weekly, Black Issues Book Review, and QBR (Quarterly Black Review), she was a contributing writer in the Notable Black American Men (Gale) reference book, Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands (January 2003-Plume), Proverbs for the People (June 2003-Kensington), and Gumbo (December 2002-Harlem Moon). She was also commissioned by the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry to write a biography of William P. Young, Pennsylvania’s first African American Secretary of Labor and Industry, a project which was completed in 2001.

Bailey-Williams received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Hampton University in 1993, where she authored a cum laude thesis entitled The Grotesque in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved. Hampton is also the place where she met the love of her life, her husband Gregory, whom she married in 1997. In 1995, she received her Master of Education degree from Temple University. She has presented educational workshops on Multiple Intelligences and English Education and she participated in renowned scholar Arnold Rampersad’s seminar in African-American Studies at Princeton University.

Mrs. Bailey-Williams is active in many national and community organizations. They include her beloved sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Jack and Jill of America, Cedar Park Presbyterian Church, and the National Association of University Women. She has been awarded numerous awards including New Jersey’s Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (Spring 2002) and Teacher of the Season from the Renaissance Committee of Ewing High School (Fall 2001). She has also been recognized by Princeton University as a finalist for the Distinguished Teacher Award and the Trenton Branch of the National Association of University Women.

An avid traveler, she has visited Aruba, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Israel for independent study and leisure.

Mrs. Bailey-Williams was born in Philadelphia and raised in the neighboring suburb of Montgomery County. She currently resides in Mercer County, NJ.