Nick Mamatas

Nick Mamatas is the author of the novels;Move Under Ground , Under My Roof, Sensation, The Damned Highway (with Brian Keene), Bullettime, Love Is the Law, The Last Weekend, I Am Providence, Sabbath, and The Second Shooter, His short fiction can be found in four collections: 3000MPH In Every Direction At Once, You Might Sleep... The Nickronomicon, and The People's Republic of Everything. His short work has appeared on Tor.com, in Best American Mystery Stories, McSweeney's, and many other venues.

He is also the editor of the anthologies The Urban Bizarre, Phantom #0, Spicy Slipstream Stories (with Jay Lake), and the Bram Stoker Award winner Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow). As part of his day job, he co-edited the Locus Award nominee The Future Is Japanese, Phantasm Japan, and the Locus nominee Hanzai Japan--all with Masumi Washington. He

also edited the hybrid fiction/cocktail anthology Mixed Up (with Molly Tanzer).

Nick co-edited the magazine Clarkesworld for the first two years of its existence, and is the current fiction editor for StarShipSofa.

Nick lives in the California Bay Area, where he was formerly editor of trade books for VIZ Media. He now edits manga and the occasional novel for Seven Seas Entertainment.