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Nic Pizzolatto (b. in New Orleans, LA) is a novelist and story writer in the Southern literary tradition.

He has taught fiction and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Chicago, and DePauw University. He currently lives with his family in Los Angeles, where he writes for television and film.

His first two short stories, "Between Here and the Yellow Sea" and "Ghost Birds," sold simultaneously to the Atlantic Monthly. Other stories by him have appeared in The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and several other publications. In 2006, he published a story collection with MacAdam/Cage.

His first novel, Galveston, was published by Scribner in June, 2010. It will be translated and published in France by Editions Belfond, Hong Kong, and in Italy by Mondadori, as part of their Strade Blu line.

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