Nick Arvin is the author of In the Electric Eden, Articles of War, and The Reconstructionist. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal and has been honored with awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Library Association, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Also an engineer, Arvin has worked in automotive engineering, forensic engineering, and the design of power plants and oil and gas facilities. Arvin's newest novel, Mad Boy, will be published by Europa Editions in June 2018.

Nick taught creative writing and rhetoric at the University of Iowa, and he has taught at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop since 2004.

For more on Nick, visit his web site: www.nickarvin.com or read an interview with Nick on our Top-Secret Blog: Nick Arvin on the Necessity of Adventure Novels.