Nicholas Christopher is the author of seventeen books- eight previous volumes of poetry, most recently, Crossing the Equator- New & Selected Poems; six novels, including The Soloist, Veronica, and A Trip to the Stars; a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night- Film Noir & the American City; and a novel for children, The True Adventures of Nicol Zen. He lives in New York City.
Nicholas Christopher is a fabulist...His fiction often puts me in mind of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, two time-travelers who are his great precursors. His poetry tends to build on the work of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill. Like them, he has a taste for the exotic, the faraway, the displaced, the imaginary. Edward Hirsch