Nick Almeida is a writer, editor, and teacher living, working, and splitting time between Kansas City and Houston.

His fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Academic Medicine, American Literary Review, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, The Southeast Review , and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Inprint Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction, the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction, and the Everett Southwest Literary Award. He has served on the editorial staff of New England Review and Bat City Review. His chapbook, Masterplans, was selected by Steve Almond as the inaugural winner of the Masters Review’s Chapbook Open in Fiction. He is at work on his first novel, which explores the convergence of brain trauma, religious vision, and media spectacle in pandemic-era America.

A first-generation college student and New Hope, Pennsylvania native, Nick holds degrees from Penn State University, the Michener Center for Writers, and the University of Houston.