Student Profiles: Nick Kocz
I am a second-year MFA candidate who writes short stories. I received my B.A. from The American University in International Studies and Economics.
Michael Dirda, writing recently in The Washington Post, observed that “Over the past 25 years, literary fiction has increasingly disdained the strict tenets of social realism. Our finest writers are now producing what is essentially science fiction (Cormac McCarthy’s The Road), alternate history (Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union) and absurdist fantasy (the short stories of George Saunders).” It is this new tradition that I explore in my own creative writing. My short stories have been published or are forthcoming in Gargoyle, Red Rock Review, and The Portland Review, among other places.