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.