Nicholas Montemarano

Who is Nicholas Montemarano?

Nicholas Montemarano is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, The Book of Why and A Fine Place, and the short story collection If the Sky Falls. His fiction has been published widely in magazines such as Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, DoubleTake, The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review, The Southern Review, and AGNI. He has published memoir pieces in The Washington Post Magazine and DoubleTake.

Montemarano's story "The Worst Degree of Unforgivable" received a 2003 Pushcart Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.

He received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in the Bennington Writing Seminars.