Nicholas Belardes

A writer of the American West, Nicholas Belardes’s fiction often combines elements of literary fantastic, fantasy, eco-horror, and science fiction. His debut eco-horror novel THE DEADING is forthcoming from Erewhon Books Summer '24. Read an official description of the book.His obsession with nature, history, the world’s ongoing climate disasters, blended with a daily birdwatching habit, has filled his prose with not just warblers and flycatchers, but also other obscurities from the natural world. His work has appeared in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (Ohio State University Press), Carve Magazine and more. He earned his MFA at UC Riverside Palm Desert Low Residency where he worked with Stephen Graham Jones and Tod Goldberg.Follow him on TwitterOr follow on Bluesky