Nick Stokes’ novel AFFAIR is currently in serial publication online at The Seattle Star. His shortish prose and fictions and nothings and undefinables have been published by Mixer Publishing, Waccamaw, Prick of the Spindle, City Arts, Word Riot, Opium, KNOCK, and Exquisite Disarray Publishing. His plays have been produced, supported, and developed by Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 14/48 Theater Festival, Theatre Puget Sound, Blood Ensemble, Open Circle Theater, Tacoma Arts Commission, and others. He has been awarded Artist Trust's Camano Island Residency, a GAP award, the Rannu Fund Prize for Writers of Speculative Literature, and a Hugo Writers Award. He lives with his burgeoning family in Tacoma; he packs mules in the backcountry of Montana; he's virtually at nickstokes.net.