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Title: Nikki Darling Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1983-2013
Collection number: 148
Creator: Darling, Nikki
Extent:
4.5 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Nikki Darling is a Los Angeles writer, whose cultural criticism and essays appear regularly or have appeared in the Los Angeles
Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine and Public Books. As well, she is a columnist at KCET, Artbound. Darling
is a candidate in the Creative Writing/Literature PHD program at USC. This collection includes greeting cards, letters, and
notes from Darling's family and friends, as well as photographs of Darling and friends throughout her childhood and into her
college years attending Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. Personal journals with regular
diary entries, creative written work, photographs, and other ephemeral materials. The collection is also made up of school
work, transcripts and informational material from middle school through post-graduate studies. Other creative work includes
poetry and art work.
Physical location: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Chicano Studies
Research Center Library for paging information.
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Chicano Studies
Research Center Library for paging information.
Copyright has not been assigned to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. All requests for permission to publish must be
submitted in writing to the Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Archive. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Identification of item], Nikki Darling Papers, 148, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
This collection was donated to the Chicano Studies Research Center by Nikki Darling in 2013.
Processed by Angel Diaz, December 2013-January 2014
Processed by Angel Diaz, December 2013-January 2014.
Nikki Darling is a third generation Angelino on her father's side and Neomexicano on her mother's. From South Pasadena, she
was born June 6, 1980 and attended various schools in the area including Holy Family School, Ramona Convent, and the Los Angeles
County High School for the Arts. Darling graduated high school in 1999.
Darling attended Euguene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts in New York, majoring in writing and earning her Bachelor
of Arts in 2006. She earned a Masters of Fine Art in Critical Studies from the California Institute of the Arts in 2010. She
is a candidate in the Creative Writing/Literature PHD program at USC.
Nikki Darling's music criticism and essays appear regularly or have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book
Review, Tomorrow Magazine and Public Books. As well, she is a columnist at KCET, Artbound. Her essay "Appropriate For Destruction"
was included in Best Music Writing 2010. She is finishing her first novel, Fade Into You, a memoir of mixed race identity
in the San Gabriel Valley during the 90's.
This collection includes greeting cards, letters, and notes from Darling's family and friends, as well as photographs of Darling
and friends throughout her childhood and into her college years attending Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal
Arts in New York City. Personal journals with regular diary entries, creative written work, photographs, and other ephemeral
materials. The collection is also made up of school work, transcripts and informational material from middle school through
post-graduate studies. Other creative work includes poetry and art work.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Correspondence, Writings, and Other Materials, 1983-2013. 1 linear foot
- Series 2. Journals, 1992-2009. 1.5 linear feet
- Series 3. Photographs, 1989-2013. 1 linear foot
- Series 4. Albums, Books, and Personal Materials, 1983-2013. 1 linear foot
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
American poetry--California--Los Angeles.
Mexican American women.
Music--Instruction and study.
Short stories, American.