Nate Olivarez-Giles (he/him) is a fiction writer and exploring themes of love, grief, class, race, masculinity, sexuality, technology, climate change, and chicano life in the future. Over the last two decades, Nate has worked in journalism and technology, at the Arizona Daily Star, Los Angeles Times, Wired, The Verge, The Wall Street Journal, TWiT, and Apple Inc. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Phoenix and Tempe, he graduated from the University of Arizona with a double-major in Journalism and Mexican American Studies. Nate was a James Reston Fellow at The New York Times in 2008 and a 3rd Space by Roots Wounds Words Fiction Fellow in 2024.