Nic Brown is a writer and a musician. His books include Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes (33 1/3, Bloomsbury 2025), Bang Bang Crash (Counterpoint 2023), In Every Way (Counterpoint 2015), Doubles (Counterpoint 2010), and Floodmarkers (Counterpoint 2009).

Nic has served as the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi and is now a professor at Clemson University.

He is also a drummer. With his first band, Athenaeum, he released two records on Atlantic Records. The first single off their first album peaked at #14 on the Billboard Alternative Rock charts. He has since recorded and toured with many acts, including Longwave, Ben Lee, Skeleton Key, Kim Richey, Matt Pond PA, and Eszter Balint.