Selected Publications

Literary Journal Publications

“Trajectory,” XRAY Lit Mag

“Fifty-Fifty,” Necessary Fiction

“On Your Left,” Louisiana Literature (print)

“The Current,” Write or Die Magazine

“E-S-O-T-A,” Midway Journal

“Dust,” Shadowplay (print)

“Distribution,” Identity Theory

“Fireworks,” JMWW

“Hold, Buy, Sell,” Whisk(e)y Tit Journal

“Mulligan,” Blue Press (print)

“Porcelain,” XRAY Lit Mag

“Inventory,” Cleaver Magazine

“Reflexes,” Fictive Dream

“The Driver,” Prosetrics Literary Magazine (print)

“What Would You Say?” Heavy Feather Review

“We’ve Been Looking Everywhere for You,” Hoxie Gorge Review

“Homage, Ouachita County 2005,” Pithead Chapel

Book Publications

This Is Where You Are, Roadside Press - available at Magical Jeep, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble

Sedgwick County: Stories, forthcoming from Roadside Press in September of 2026

Praise for This Is Where You Are

“In Nicholas Claro’s debut short-story collection, This Is Where You Are, lives are suspended, often in a moment of devastation or in its slow ominous wake. Claro makes his readers dangle in these moments too, as men and women, youngish or drifting toward middle age, consider the wreckage of their lives. Is this self-sabotage or are these accidents? Arms break and legs break and cars crash as cautious drives wait at the light. These stories are rooted in a contemporary form of minimalism that pare back everything but the sticky, unsettling truth.”

- Daniel Hoyt, author of This Book Is Not For You and Shit List

“In the tradition of Carver and Dubus, Claro delivers an intimate and unflinching portrayal of characters struggling with the anguish, absurdity, and uncanniness that is modern life. These fifteen stories will pull you in and refuse to let go. Nicholas Claro is young writer to watch.”

- Soon Wiley, author of When We Fell Apart

“Nicholas Claro’s This Is Where You Are is a pyromaniac debut, an incendiary study in the life-altering, explosive moments we rig against ourselves and, ultimately, detonate. Each of the stories in his collection brings us right up to the edge of where the blastwave will hit, and we can’t help but watch, transfixed and incapable of looking away, as Claro’s characters light the fuse. This is the emergence of an essential, outstanding voice in fiction.”

- Barrett Bowlin, author of Ghosts Caught on Film

“The stories of This Is Where You Are pulse with their own heartbeats. The gut-punches they deliver are encased in pure poetry, in language that gleams with taut and icy clarity. Claro peels back the layers of the everyday to reveal the inner lives bristling with guilt, with resentment, with uncertainty. Secrets nestle in corners, deep-seated frustration comes out swinging, and seemingly pleasant exchanges crackle with tension. And while these stories are often grave and poignant, they’re also sharp with humor and wit. They surge off the page like living things, taking us from the hazy remembrances of childhood grief, to the doomed spiral of a plane crash, to a wonderfully fraught scene where diners face off over a knife. This Is Where You Are announces a marvelous new talent in fiction.”

- Amy DeBellis, author of All Our Tomorrows