Nic Brown is a writer and a musician. His books include Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes (33 1/3, Bloomsbury 2026), the memoir Bang Bang Crash (Counterpoint 2023), which was named a book of the year by Library Journal and Booklist, and the novels In Every Way (Counterpoint 2015), Doubles (Counterpoint 2010), and Floodmarkers (Counterpoint 2009), which was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, and the Harvard Review, among many other outlets.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University, 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, and Kim Richey.