Micah Nathan

Who is Micah Nathan?

Micah Nathan is an award-winning American author, screenwriter, and essayist. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Gods of Aberdeen, was published in June 2005 by Simon & Schuster and became an international bestseller, reaching #1 on the Italian bestseller lists. Nathan followed this with a second novel, Losing Graceland, published in 2011 to mostly positive reviews, called "a blend of the ironic and the painfully sincere" by the Washington Post, while the Boston Globe referred to its "low-rent variations on a Homeric theme, antic originality, and the near-magic realism of Elvis as a geriatric Ulysses."

In 2012 Nathan published Jack the Bastard and Other Stories, a collection with illustrations by Russ Nicholson, Phil Noto, Tradd Moore, and Michael Allred. Fat Possum Records released a limited edition soundtrack for the book, featuring tracks by The Black Keys and Townes Van Zandt.

Nathan's essays and short fiction have appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, Boston Globe Magazine, Post Road, Bellingham Review, Diagram, Glimmer Train, The Gettysburg Review, Commonweal, and other national publications. He received his MFA from Boston University, where he was awarded the 2010 Saul Bellow Prize.