Nicholas Fillmore is the author of SMUGGLER, an IndieReader Discovery Award-winning memoir and screenplay, THE GOSPEL OF SATAN, a novella, ALLOCUTION: Selected Poems 1990-2025, and SINS OF OUR FATHERS, a novel (forthcoming). He attended the graduate writing program at University of New Hampshire, was a finalist for the Juniper Prize, the Hudson Prize and others, and co-founded SQUiD magazine in Provincetown, MA. He lives in Boston and Hawaii with his wife and daughter and teaches college English.