Micah Nathan is an award-winning author and essayist. His debut novel, Gods of Aberdeen (Simon & Schuster), became an international bestseller, and in 2011 he published his second novel, Losing Graceland (Random House). Nathan's short fiction and essays have appeared in Vanity Fair, the Paris Review, Kinfolk, Boston Globe Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, and others. He received his MFA from Boston University, where he was awarded the Saul Bellow Prize in Fiction.