Nick DiChario - Biography

Nick DiChario is the owner of The Write Book and Gift Shop, located in the quaint little village of Honeoye Falls, NY (www.Writebookandgifts.com), the official bookstore of Writer-On-Line. His short fiction has appeared in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and mainstream publications in the United States and abroad, and his work has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, among many others. (Some of his short fiction may be found at http://www.fictionwise.com.) Nick has also been nominated for a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards, and a World Fantasy Award. In addition to writing stories, Nick is the fiction editor of HazMat Literary Review (http://www.hmlr.org), a magazine dedicated to printing new voices and politically aware poetry and prose. Some of his plays have been presented in Geva Theatre’s Regional Playwrights Festival in upstate New York, and he is the workshop coordinator for Writers & Books (a non-profit literary center). Nick’s first novel, A Small and Remarkable Life, will be published in spring 2006 by Red Deer Press.