Cecily Nicholson is a Ontario poet, author and administrator based in British Columbia. She has written three poetry collections, Triage, From the Poplars and Wayside Sang. Nicholson has been a writer-in-residence for Simon Fraser University and the administrator of Vancouver-based artist co-operative Gallery Gachet.

In 2015, she won the Dorothy Livesay prize for poetry for From the Poplars.

Her collection Wayside Sang won the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. Nicholson wrote the essay tally recounted for the special CBC Books series Borders.