Shotgun Lovesongs (Butler)

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Raised—Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
• Education—University of Wisconsin; Iowa
   Writers' Workshop
• Currently—lives in Wisconsin


Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  His writings have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, The Progressive, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

He has worked as a meatpacker, a Burger King maintenance man, a liquor store clerk, a coffee roaster, an office manager, an author escort, an inn-keeper (twice), and several other odd vocations.

He presently lives on 16 acres of land in rural Wisconsin adjacent to a buffalo farm. He is married with two children.(From .)