“With language both elegiac and irreverent, Otte explores characters trapped in liminal spaces between reality and delusion, oblivion and grief, cruelty and devotion, but within the debris something beautiful persists.”
- Salar Abdoh & Dalia Sofer, judges of the 2021 Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Fiction
Nick Otte’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Boulevard, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, The Baltimore Review, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He was named the runner up in Boulevard’s 2023 Emerging Writer contest. He was also a recipient of the 2021 Jerome Lowell DeJure Prize in Creative Writing, and the winner of the Winter 2020 Fiction Contest at Causeway Lit.
He holds an MFA from The City College of New York, and currently teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at The City College of New York and Baruch College.
Contact him at: nick.otte@gmail.com