Nick Almeida is fiction and nonfiction writer, editor, and teacher living and working in Kansas City and Houston. His writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Academic Medicine, Pleiades, CRAFT, American Literary Review, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from The Michener Center for Writers and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. In Fall 2025, he will be joining the Kansas City Art Institute as an Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts.