Nick Lyon

Alva, Oklahoma native Nicholas Lyon is the author of the award-winning novel The Baptist Bootlegger, a historical fiction novel set in the time of Prohibition in Oklahoma, as well as the soon-to-be-published Bookshop Soundtrack. He’s been writing since taking a creative writing class in college. He’s been a member of the writing groups Red Dirt Writers and Rose Rock wRiters, as well as a member of the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. He’s served on the board of the OWFI since 2018 in the positions of PR Director, President, Past-President, First Vice-President, and Junior PR Director. He's also an Honorary Lifetime Member of OWFI.

Currently, he’s keeping up with his blog and working on a sequel to Bootlegger.

When he’s not writing, he’s teaching high school English and speech to kids who'd rather be on their phones. He’s a dad and husband, and he’s a guitar player in the band The Dead Armadillos. He’s also a woodturner. He currently lives in Guthrie, Oklahoma.