Micah Nathan's works have been translated into seven languages, and include the bestselling novels Gods of Aberdeen (Simon & Schuster, 2005), and Losing Graceland (Random House, 2011), along with the collection Jack the Bastard and Other Stories (One Peace Books, 2012). He received his MFA from Boston University, where he won the 2010 Saul Bellow Prize for Fiction. His essays have won an Associated Press Award, and his short stories have been finalists for the Tobias Wolff Award and the Innovative Fiction Award.
Micah is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and his essays and short stories have appeared in the Paris Review, The Best American Mystery Stories, Boston Globe Magazine, Glimmer Train, Free Inquiry, Gettysburg Review, and others.