JAY BARON NICORVO’s true-crime memoir, Best Copy Available, won the AWP Award selected by Geoff Dyer, landed on the Indie Next list, and was named a best memoir of the year by CrimeReads. His novel, The Standard Grand, also made the Indie Next List, and his poetry collection, Deadbeat, debuted on the Poetry Foundation bestseller list.
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He lives on an old farm outside Battle Creek, Michigan, with his wife, Thisbe Nissen, their son, a couple cats, a dog, and a dozen chickens.
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Jay’s published essays in the Los Angles Times and the Wall Street Journal, and his writing has been featured on NPR and PBS NewsHour. He's served as an editor at Ploughshares and at PEN America, and he spent years as membership director of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses in NYC.
A proud community-college graduate, Jay's taught at Eckerd College, Emerson College, and Western Michigan University. He’s also stocked the toilet paper aisle of a Winn-Dixie, clerked at a drugstore, solicited donations for the Florida Police Athletic League, and waited tables at a fondue restaurant, a steak house, and a French bistro. He was most recently a guest artist at the Cornell College low-residency program in creative writing.