Nick Ripatrazone is the author of five books: Oblations (prose poems, Gold Wake Press 2011), This Is Not About Birds (poems, Gold Wake Press 2012), The Fine Delight: Postconciliar Catholic Literature (literary criticism, Cascade Books 2013), This Darksome Burn (novella, firthFORTH Books 2013), and We Will Listen For You (novella, CCM Press 2015). His writing has received honors from Esquire, The Kenyon Review, and ESPN: The Magazine, and has been featured at Verse Daily.