Nickalus Rupert spent most of his life near the Gulf Coast of Florida. In 2015, he completed an MFA fellowship at the University of Central Florida. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi and a former associate editor of Mississippi Review. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Slice Magazine, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Tin House Online, Sonora Review Online, and other journals. Currently, he is at work on Giants of the False Desert, a novel.
