About
Nicholas K. Smith is a journalist and author. His first book is Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers.
Smith has been writing professionally for more than a decade and has reported on such diverse topics as stolen WWII art, melting glaciers, Austrian indie gamers, and Southern Arizona politics.
Smith has contributed to numerous publications such as Time, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, Like the Wind magazine, and Fodor’s Vienna and the Best of Austria travel guide, among several others.
Prior to that, he was a staff reporter and web editor for Arizona-based publications the Tucson Weekly, Inside Tucson Business, and the Explorer Newspaper. He was also a research assistant at the Earth Institute at Columbia University where he was the managing editor of GlacierHub.org, a science news website that seeks to deepen the understanding of glaciers.
He is a recipient of the 2014 Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing and has received numerous awards from the Arizona Press Club and the Suburban Newspapers of America for community reporting, sports reporting, and web editing.
Smith received a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014 as well as bachelor’s degrees in journalism and business administration from the University of Arizona in 2006. A native of Arizona, Smith now lives in Vienna, Austria.
He is represented by John Rudolph at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.
Twitter: @nicholasksmith
Email: nicholas [dot] k [dot] smith [at] gmail [dot] com
Smith has been writing professionally for more than a decade and has reported on such diverse topics as stolen WWII art, melting glaciers, Austrian indie gamers, and Southern Arizona politics.
Smith has contributed to numerous publications such as Time, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, Like the Wind magazine, and Fodor’s Vienna and the Best of Austria travel guide, among several others.
Prior to that, he was a staff reporter and web editor for Arizona-based publications the Tucson Weekly, Inside Tucson Business, and the Explorer Newspaper. He was also a research assistant at the Earth Institute at Columbia University where he was the managing editor of GlacierHub.org, a science news website that seeks to deepen the understanding of glaciers.
He is a recipient of the 2014 Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing and has received numerous awards from the Arizona Press Club and the Suburban Newspapers of America for community reporting, sports reporting, and web editing.
Smith received a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014 as well as bachelor’s degrees in journalism and business administration from the University of Arizona in 2006. A native of Arizona, Smith now lives in Vienna, Austria.
He is represented by John Rudolph at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.
Twitter: @nicholasksmith
Email: nicholas [dot] k [dot] smith [at] gmail [dot] com
