Nathaniel Rich is the author of three novels: King Zeno (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018); Odds Against Tomorrow (FSG, 2013); and The Mayor’s Tongue (Riverhead, 2008). Losing Earth: A Recent History was published in April by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Rich’s short fiction has been published by McSweeney’s, Vice, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the American Scholar; the stories “The Northeast Kingdom” and “Blue Rock” were both finalists for the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and the latter was awarded the 2017 Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. Rich served as Fiction Editor of the Paris Review between 2005 and 2010.
Books in order of publication:
| San Francisco Noir | 2005 |
| The Mayor’s Tongue | 2008 |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | 2013 |
| Losing Earth: A Recent History | 2018 |
| King Zeno | 2018 |
| The Artificial Forest | 2021 |
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