Nic Low is a writer, installation artist, arts organiser and recovering graphic designer of Ngāi Tahu Maori and European descent. He whakapapas to Ōraka-Aparima at the bottom of the South Island, and is vice-chair of the Ngāi Tahu Ki Melbourne taurahere group. He divides his time between a notorious Brunswick sharehouse and a bush retreat in the Castlemaine National Heritage Park.

His first book is Arms Race, a collection of mischievous, polemical short stories out with Text Publishing. His second, a literary walking expedition through the Maori and European history of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, comes out with Text Publishing in 2019. His subjects are wilderness and adventure, technology and power, and history and race.

Nic’s short fiction, essays and criticism have been published widely in Australia and New Zealand. He is a recipient of the 2018 CLNZ Writers’ Award, a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, and an alumnus of the 2017 Banff Centre Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program. Other awards include the GREW Prize for non-fiction, a shortlisting in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and joint runner up in the Overland Short Story Competition.