Nic Kelman was born in Manhattan, moved to the UK when he was 12, and then returned to the United States to attend university at MIT. There he majored in Brain and Cognitive Science, learning from the likes of Stephen Pinker, Marvin Minsky, and Noam Chomsky, and conducted, among other studies, research on the effects of orgasm on problem-solving in males. In his final year, MIT awarded him the Burchard Scholarship, given for outstanding performance in both the arts and the sciences. Nic also minored in Film and Media Studies, including work at NYU film school, and started a successful philanthropic theater company known as The Midnight Players.

After completing his undergraduate work, he attended the Brown University Creative Writing MFA program on fellowship. He began girls as his thesis at Brown and the work was awarded the James Assatly Award for graduate fiction.

Nic now lives in New York City once again where he writes both fiction and non-fiction, teaches a range of subjects part-time in an enrichment program for gifted and autistic high-school students, and works on his photography. His fish are quite forgiving of Nic's library which packs every corner of the tiny NYC apartment they share, creating strange synergies by compacting the likes of Les Fleurs du Mal with The Ecology of Small Mammals or Slave Songs of the United States with The X-men Encyclopedia. His religious beliefs are founded on the words of Marcus Tulius Cicero: "A room without books is like a body without a soul."

His writing and photography have appeared, among other places, in The Kenyon Review, Black Book, The Village Voice and Glamour, as well as various anthologies. He is currently working on his second novel. His latest book, "Video Game Art" is due out from Assouline Publishing on October 15th, 2005.