Michael Nath

Michael Nath is a novelist, essayist, and academic brought up in South Wales and England. Of Welsh and Indian heritage, he holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westmister.

Nath is the author of three acclaimed novels: La Rochelle (Route, 2010), which was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, British Story (Route, 2014), and The Treatment (Quercus, 2020). His forthcoming novel, Talbot & The Fall: A Comedy (With Support), will be published by Indirect Books in 2026, and he is currently at work on Hamilton's Big Favour: Or, A Woman Possessed, a novel exploring the subject of laughter.

His short fiction, novel extracts, creative nonfiction, and interviews have appeared in Stand: New Welsh Review, Critical Quarterly, Route Anthologies, L'Esprit Literary Review, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. Selections from British Story were translated into Spanish for Argonauta (Issue 3, 2016). He has also published academic essays and articles on modernism and creative writing practice, most recently in L'Esprit Winter Quarterly (2023).

The Society Club in Soho named a cocktail in his honor - "Dr Nath's Fogcutter".