Scott Nicolay

Scott Nicolay (born April 16, 1963) is an American author of weird fiction. Nicolay's "Do You Like to Look At Monsters?" received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 2015.[1] He resides on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Nicolay hosts The Outer Dark, a weekly podcast about weird fiction.

Scott Nicolay
Born (1963-04-16) April 16, 1963
United States
OccupationAuthor, translator, poet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University
GenreWeird fiction, Horror fiction
Notable worksAna Kai Tangata
"Do You Like to Look at Monsters?"
Notable awards2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story
Website
scottnicolay.com

Biography

Nicolay was born in New Jersey and studied at Rutgers University.

At the age of 26, he moved to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, where he later taught school. Nicolay is a poetry enthusiast and has translated poetry and fiction from French. He has been active in youth poetry slam movements.

Nicolay spent time as an active caver and archaeologist. He used the name Ana Kai Tangata, a cave he had studied on Easter Island, for the title of his first book of collected short fiction. The cave's name is associated with cannibalism in the Rapa Nui language.

Selected bibliography
  • Ana Kai Tangata (2014), collected short fiction.
  • "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" (2015), short story, recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.
  • After (2015), novella.
gollark: I read it before then, but still. English at school is very evil that way.
gollark: 1984 is actually part of the English GCSE course at my school (and/or exam board or whatever, not sure how that works). It's amazing how picking apart random bits of phrasing or whatever for hours on end ruin your enjoyment of a work.
gollark: Vaguely relatedly I think 1984 is entering the public domain next year. Copyright lasts for an excessively long time in my opinion.
gollark: Okay, but if you're talking about real-world examples I don't see why it's remotely relevant to say that the author of a book vaguely relating to those real-world examples believed X.
gollark: But why do his *beliefs* actually matter?

References
  1. 2015 World Fantasy Award and Life Achievement Winners.
Preceded by
Caitlín R. Kiernan		 World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner
2015		 Succeeded by
Alyssa Wong
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