Nic Brown is a writer and a musician. His memoir Bang Bang Crash (Counterpoint 2023) was selected as a best book of the year by Library Journal and Booklist. He has published three novels - In Every Way (Counterpoint 2015), Doubles (Counterpoint 2010), and Floodmarkers (Counterpoint 2009), which was selected as an Editors' Choice by The New York Times Book Review. Currently he's writing a book about the Violent Femmes' debut album for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series of books about music. 

Nic's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, and the Harvard Review, among many other publications. 

A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 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 Ben Lee, Skeleton Key, Matt Pond PA, Eszter Balint, and Longwave, with whom he recorded the album There's A Fire (RCA). Currently, he performs with the band Falcon!.