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Nancy Novick
Writer & Editor
About Me
I worked in the tower on the left.
Medical writing turned out to be a great foundation for a career that has also encompassed feature writing and fiction. In between jobs, I took a detour to earn my MA in English literature, and taught copywriting to design students for three years.
After spending my childhood in Chicago near beautiful Lake Michigan and my college years in Philadelphia, I’ve made New York City my home for most of my adult life.
An advertisement in the New York Times led me to my first job at a medical publishing group, where my work friends were all liberal arts grads and my supervisor was a former philosophy professor!
The company was housed on a high floor at 15 Park Row, once the tallest building in Manhattan. With City Hall and the Woolworth building just steps away, I felt I was in the heart of my adopted city.
Today my office is located in the apartment I share with my husband, children’s book author, Steve Metzger, and our feline muse-in-residence Pirate Daisy—who hails from Kentucky!
We’re fortunate to live near Central Park where every Saturday in the fall we join a multigenerational group of friends and family—including our daughter, who works in children’s
publishing—for a highly irregular game of bocce.
I’m grateful now that I can do the work I enjoy most—making new information and ideas accessible to readers, talking to people who are passionate about what they do, and creating my own fictional worlds.
Pirate keeps tabs on the home library.
A little more about me...
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One of the best experiences I’ve had as a volunteer was teaching literacy to a group of adult beginners. My good-humored and hard-working students—among them a former circus acrobat—set an example for me of the importance and rewards of life-long learning.
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My favorite authors include Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, George Eliot, Ian McEwan, and Somerset Maugham. My favorite film is The Lives of Others, written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Chaplin's City Lights is a close contender for second place.
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I recently completed a novel that explores the consequences of obsessive love on a seemingly ideal family. Click here to find out more.
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I'm a proud member of the Mystery Writers of America and a three-time judge of the Claypool Award presented by Killer Nashville.
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My earliest published work was a poem that appeared in Highlights magazine when I was 11! My best friend from that time still teases me—and I have to laugh along with her—since I had no direct experience with sailing or watching deer bound away, two images that made it into my early work.
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Libraries have always been an important part of my life. In fact, I owe my existence to one. My parents met in front of the library on their college campus!
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