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Nicolas Hornyak is a writer and game designer from Jersey City, NJ. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he was raised upstate in Westchester County, where he would eventually attend the Lilly Lieb Port Creative Writing Program at Purchase College. While he studied there, he developed the world of the Flooded Earth, and the first four chapters of his debut novel would make up his senior thesis. He majored in creative writing with a minor in screenwriting, and graduated cum laude in 2015.

A survivor of leukemia, Nicolas is also half Puerto Rican and bisexual, and advocates for LGBT rights and diverse representation across various mediums. You can find out more about him and his other projects at www.nicolashornyak.com.

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