Micah Nathan is the author of the collection "Jack the Bastard and Other Stories" (One Peace Books, 2012), along with the internationally bestselling novel "Gods of Aberdeen" (Simon & Schuster, 2005) and the novel "Losing Graceland" (Crown, 2011). He was the 2010 recipient of Boston University's Saul Bellow Prize for Fiction, has received an Associated Press Award, and was a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award and the Innovative Fiction Award.His novels have been translated into seven languages, and his essays and short stories have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Best American Mystery Stories, Boston Globe Magazine, Glimmer Train, The Gettysburg Review, Bellingham Review, LEMON Magazine (as contributing editor), and other national publications. Micah is an Artists Fellow at the St. Botolph Club and a roving writer-in-residence at Kingston University in London. He lives in Boston, where he occasionally teaches film, literature, and creative writing.