Nick Thurston is a writer and editor who makes art. He explores the throughlines between those roles by publishing, reading and exhibiting his own work and others’. He is the author of Always More (2026), Of the Subcontract (2013) and Reading the Remove of Literature (2006), plus the chapbooks Drama Queens (2020), Romantic Tragedy (2014) and Historia Abscondita (2007). He is a co-author or editor of many more, including Do or DIY (2012), Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right (2017) and Careful: A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice (2025). He lives with his partner and children in York, England, and is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Literature at the University of Leeds.
Nick came to The Writer’s Kitchen to collaborate with Rotterdam-based writer and translator, Kate Briggs. You can read more about Nick’s work here.