Michael Nye

Fiction Writer

Columbus, OH

Ohio US

Email:

mpnye@storymagazine.org

Website:

mpnye.com

Twitter/X:

@https://twitter.com/mpnye

Author's Bio

Michael Nye is the author of two books: the story collection Strategies Against Extinction (2012) and the novel All the Castles Burned (2018). His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in American Literary Review, Boulevard, Epoch, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Hobart, and the Millions, among many others. A graduate of the Ohio State University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, he is the former managing editor of River Styx and the Missouri Review. He lives with his family in Columbus, Ohio, where he is the editor of Story.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

All the Castles Burned (Turner Publishing Company, 2018)

Strategies Against Extinction: Stories (Queen's Ferry Press, 2012)

Journals:

American Literary Review

Boulevard

Cincinnati Review

Crab Orchard Review

Epoch

Hobart

Hunger Mountain

Kenyon Review

New South

Quiddity

RE:AL

Red Cedar Review

Sou'wester

South Dakota Review

Thin Air Magazine

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Grace Paley, and Zadie Smith

What I'm reading now:

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, Fifty-Two Pickup by Elmore Leonard, The Mothers by Brit Bennett

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Cincinnati, OH

Ohio

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Last update: Oct 10, 2019