Friday, May 05, 2017

Author Visit - Nickolas Butler

Nickolas Butler will be at the Oshkosh Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11. The event is free and open to the public!


Nickolas Butler
Butler is the author of the internationally-best selling novels Shotgun Lovesongs, and The Hearts of Men; the latter of which has already been longlisted for two of France's top literary awards. He is a multi-award winner and his work has been translated into 13 languages.  Along the way, he has worked as: a Burger King maintenance man, a tutor, a telemarketer, a hot-dog vendor, an innkeeper (twice), an office manager, a coffee roaster, a liquor store clerk, and an author escort. His itinerant work includes: potato harvester, grape picker, and Christmas tree axe-man. His short stories, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in: Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, The Lumberyard, The Christian Science Monitor, Narrative, Sixth Finch, and several other publications.

He lives on sixteen acres of land in rural Wisconsin adjacent to a buffalo farm. He is married and has two children. Find more at nickolasbutler.com

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