Nick Mamatas

Nick Mamatas is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy author and editor for the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for Viz Media. His fiction has been nominated for several awards, including several Bram Stoker Awards, while he has also been recognised for his editorial work with a Bram Stoker Award, as well as World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award nominations. He funded his early writing career by producing term papers for college students, which gained him some notoriety when he described this experience in an essay for Drexel Universitys online magazine The Smart Set.

Nick Mamatas was born on Long Island, New York and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and New School University. He is also a graduate of the MFA program in creative and professional writing at Western Connecticut State University, which he attended only after publishing a number of books, short stories, and articles. During his early writing career he wrote not just nonfiction, but also worked as a ghostwriter for college students needing term papers, an experience he later described in an essay called The Term Paper Artist. His nonfiction work has appeared in Razor Magazine, The Village Voice, and various Disinformation Books and BenBella Books Smart Pop Books anthologies.

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