Tash Nikol is a writer, design researcher, and book artist from the American South and the founder of the independent publishing project Grace Issues. Their work engages archives, materiality, and the environment through craft and community, centering Black and Indigenous traditions of survival, earth-keeping, and ingenuity. In 2026, they received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award from the School of Visual Arts for their inquiry into the lineage of ironwork in the Gulf South while in the Design Research and Writing Criticism MA program.