Nick Mamatas is the author of novel of neighborhood nuclear superiority Under My Roof (Soft Skull Press, 2007), a book whose German translation, Unter meinem Dach, was nominated for the Kurd Laßwitz Preis for best translated SF. Other books include the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild award-nominated Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground (Night Shade, 2004; Prime, 2006), and the Stoker-nominated Civil War ghost story Northern Gothic (Soft Skull, 2001). Nick's short stories have appeared in slicks including the men's magazine Razor, the scientific journal Nature, and the German-language rock magazine Spex, genre publications such as Polyphony, ChiZine, and Strange Horizons, "zines including Brutarian Quarterly and The Whirligig, in the horror anthologies Poe's Lighthouse and Shivers V (Cemetery Dance, 2006 and 2008), Corpse Blossoms (Creeping Hemlock, 2005), Bandersnatch and Phantom (Prime, 2007 and 2008), and in comic book form in Flesh For The Beast (Media Blasters, 2004). His pornographic fiction has appeared in the webzines Fishnet and Suicide Girls, and in the anthology of novellas Short & Sweet (Blue Moon, 2006). Much of his recent short fiction will be collected in You Might Sleep . . . (Prime, 2008) Nick's reportage and essays on politics, publishing, popular culture, and art have appeared in Razor, The Village Voice, Silicon Alley Reporter, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Artbyte, Poets & Writers, The Writer, Pages, The Writer's Chronicle, In These Times, Clamor, Rue Morgue, The Guardian (UK), in various Disinformation Books and Ben Bella's Smart Pop anthologies, and in dozens of other magazines and anthologies. With Kap Su Seol he translated and edited the first English edition of the definitive account of South Korea's 1980 Kwangju Uprising (and subsequent US-backed massacre), Kwangju Diary (UCLA Asian Pacific, 1999). As an editor, Nick is responsible for The Urban Bizarre (Prime, 2004), Phantom #0 (Prime, 2005), and with Jay Lake Spicy Slipstream Stories (Lethe, 2008). He co-edits the monthly online magazine of the fantastic, Clarkesworld, and co-edited its first annual anthology Realms (Wyrm, 2008) with Sean Wallace. With Ellen Datlow, Nick is co-editing an anthology of renovated regional ghost stories, Haunted Legends (Tor, 2009). A native New Yorker, Nick now lives a few miles from Readercon, in Somerville, Massachusetts.