Nick Antosca

Nick Antosca
Born	January 23, 1983 (1983-01-23) (age 28) New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	American
Period	(2006) - present
Subjects	sex, violence, ghosts
Notable work(s)	Fires (2006) Midnight Picnic (2009)
Notable award(s)	Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella, 2009
Influences James Salter, John Fowles, Alicia Erian, Peter Straub, John Crowley, William Sleator
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Nick Antosca is an American author of literary fiction. He is the author of two novels: Fires (2006, Impetus Press; re-released in 2011 by Civil Coping Mechanisms) and Midnight Picnic (2009, Word Riot Press). Midnight Picnic was set to be published by Impetus Press, but the small publisher folded under financial pressure in the fall of 2008. Word Riot Press stepped in and the novel was published in 2009.^[1] Antosca was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He is a 2005 graduate of Yale University.

His writing has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, and websites including The New York Sun, n+1, The Paris Review, nerve (website), Short Fiction, Bookforum, Hustler, Interview, Film Threat, The Barcelona Review, The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast.^[2] In 2011, he wrote the screenplay for the horror film The Cottage, directed by Christopher Jaymes and starring David Arquette.^[3]

Books

• Fires, novel (Impetus Press, 2006; re-released in 2011 by Civil Coping Mechanisms).
• Midnight Picnic, novel (Word Riot Press, 2009).

Awards

• 2009 Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novella, Midnight Picnic

External links

• Official website
• "Predator Bait" - short story from n+1
• "Reading Lolita at Twelve" - essay from The Paris Review
• "The Girlfriend Game" - short story from Metazen

References

1. ^ Nick Antosca's Orphaned Novel Finds a New House November 10, 2008, Galleycat
2. ^ "author page at The Daily Beast". The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/nick-antosca/. Retrieved 2010-02-02. 
3. ^ "The Cottage on IMDB". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1977941/. Retrieved 2011-07-07. 

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Name	Antosca, Nick
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Date of birth	January 23, 1983
Place of birth	New Orleans, Louisiana
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