Derek Nikitas

Derek Nikitas
Born	Manchester, NH, USA
Occupation	Writer
Citizenship	United States
Education	State University of New York College at Brockport (BA), University of North Carolina at Wilmington (MFA)
Period	Contemporary
Genres	Crime
Notable work(s)	Pyres, The Long Division
Notable award(s)	Edgar Award nomination, Pushcart Prize nomination.
Influences Denis Johnson, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, James Ellroy, Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy
www.dereknikitas.com

Derek Nikitas is the Edgar Award nominated author of Pyres and The Long Division. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Ontario Review, Chelsea and New South.

Background

Nikitas received a B.A. in English from the State University of New York College at Brockport and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His first novel, Pyres, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and his story Wonder was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Joyce Carol Oates. Nikitas' second novel, The Long Division, was published by Minotaur Books in October, 2009. Nikitas' work has been translated into several languages including Japanese and German. The German translation, Scheiterhaufen, was selected as 'Crime Novel of the Month' by Radio House Europe. Derek currently teaches English and Creative Writing in the M.F.A. program at Eastern Kentucky University.

External links

• http://www.dereknikitas.com/author.html

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Name	Nikitas, Derek
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