Miriam Nichols is a writer and scholar based in Vancouver, Canada. She has published widely on post-war literature in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the writings of Robin Blaser, and poets who participated in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and 1950s. Nichols is professor emeritus at the University of the Fraser Valley, and has held teaching positions at Medicine Hat College and Simon Fraser University.