Nick Antosca is an American author of literary fiction. He is the author of two novels: Fires (2006, Impetus Press) and Midnight Picnic (2009, Word Riot Press). Midnight Picnic was set to be published by Impetus Press, but the small publisher folded under financial pressure in the fall of 2008. Word Riot Press stepped in and the novel was published in 2009. Antosca was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and currently lives in New York City.