Nicole has published a handful of poetry chapbooks, diary excerpts and memoirs with a slew of additional works planned for release from early 2019 on. Today, Nicole and her fiance, run what has become a fully operative creative services & marketing firm for authors, artists and the like, and Nicole is the founder & editor of several literary and creative lifestyle publications, in both print & digital formats. She was forced to drop her college courses half-way through to her degree, as she began a new, sober life in New York City. In April of 2010, Nicole lost 95% of her eyesight in her right eye, due to injecting a poisoned bag of heroin, and was shipped to Manhattan’s Bellevue hospital 1,600 miles away from her city at the time, where she had been attending an Art Institute for PhotoJournalism. She has lived in five regions nationally, including South Florida and New York City, and has always been a self-described poetic, nomadic, creative soul and enthusiast of a variety of artistic mediums, but considers creative writing her number one form of art and feels everything else is just an extension of that passion. Born in a tiny town bordering Canada only five minutes from the legendary falls, Nicole says she had an eye for beauty at a young age, which included poetry. Nicole D’Settēmi is a 36-year-old novelist, poet, and visual pop-artist from Niagara Falls, New York.

Addictarium highlights in the starkest of lights, why it is so difficult for addicts to receive the recovery they seek, when they finally do decide to put the drug down.

With magnificent candor-and sometimes emotionally crippling descriptions-we witness Danielle's fight towards recovery from more than just heroin, as Addictarium brings the readers on a fascinating and harrowing, brutal tale of a young women's recovery from total and mass self-destruction. Hailed by many as a beautiful, unique, honest, raw and poetic account of recovery, Addictarium takes readers on a compelling journey through the life and eyes of the narrator a creative, nomadic, deep-but, incidentally broken-young woman, and underlines the contributing factors to what it's really like to suffer from addiction.

Severely impaired from shooting a bad batch of black tar heroin, and already partially blind from the infection that the muddy poison has caused, she is forced to hitch a greyhound bus to New York City, and to abandon her care-free, American-bohemian, drug infested life-style.

When wild-child, and south Florida escapee, Danielle Martino finds herself curled in a ball on the cold tile floors of her filthy rank bathroom in the tiny studio she rents with her fiancé and partner-in-crime, she knows it's time to quit abusing heroin. The layers and complexities of Addictarium will shock and enthrall you.

Addictarium by Nicole D'Settēmi