“With language both elegiac and irreverent, Otte explores characters trapped in liminal spaces between reality and delusion, oblivion and grief, cruelty and devotion, but within the debris something beautiful persists.”
- Salar Abdoh, Author of A Nearby Country Called Love
Nick Otte’s writing has appeared in Boulevard, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, The Baltimore Review, Words Without Borders and elsewhere.
He was named runner-up in Boulevard’s 2023 Emerging Writer contest. He attended the 2024 One Story Writer’s Conference in New York, was also a recipient of the 2021 Jerome Lowell DeJure Prize in Creative Writing, and the winner of the Winter 2020 Fiction Contest at Causeway Lit.
He holds an MFA from The City College of New York. He has taught writing at CCNY, Lehman College, Baruch College, and is a Teacher of Special Programs with the Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley focusing in genre studies.
He is currently working on his debut novel (the opening chapter of which was longlisted for both Uncharted and Santa Fe Writers Project prizes) and seeking representation and publication for his debut collection of short stories.
Contact him at: nick.otte@gmail.com