Nick Jaina is an author and musician currently living nomadically.

His 2015 memoir Get It While You Can was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Atlantic Monthly, Wilderness House Review, Somnambulist, Oregon Journal of the Humanities, and many other places. He has composed music scores for feature films, such as the indie comedy All Sorts and the forest fire documentary Elemental. He also co-founded a ballet collective in New York City, in which he was the musical composer and worked with dancers from Juilliard and New York City Ballet and performed works at the Baryshnikov Center and BAM Center for the Arts.

His recent book, SPEKTRUM, is a literary re-creation of an immersive light and sound exhibit of the same name that he co-created in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2018.

CONTACT INFO
nickjaina@gmail.com

BOOKS by Nick Jaina
2022 - SPEKTRUM
2020 - Hitomi
2015 - Get It While You Can

ALBUMS by Nick Jaina
2023 - I Had an Army
2021 - CREDO
2019 - Black Rainbow
2016 - Brutal Lives
2013 - Primary Perception
2011 – The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone
2010 – A Bird in the Opera House
2008 – A Narrow Way
2008 – Wool
2006 – The 7 Stations
2005 – The Bluff of All Time