Jay Baron Nicorvo


Jay Baron Nicorvo is an American novelist, poet, and essayist.

Life

Nicorvo was born in Perth Amboy, NJ and was raised in Sarasota, FL. He's married to the writer Thisbe Nissen and they live on an old farm outside Battle Creek, MI.

Career

Nicorvo's writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, The Baffler, Ploughshares, and Salon. His poetry has been featured on PBS NewsHour.
Nicorvo's first novel, The Standard Grand, was published in 2017 by St. Martin’s Press. It is about a group of veterans, traumatized by their wartime experiences, who meet in a crumbling resort in the Catskill Mountains.

Books