Butler, Nickolas

NICKOLAS BUTLER was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His writings have appeared in: "Narrative Magazine", "Ploughshares", "The Kenyon Review Online", "The Progressive", "The Christian Science Monitor", and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Iowa Writer s Workshop, he currently lives in Wisconsin with his wife and their two children. "Shotgun Lovesongs "is his first novel.