Career
His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Ontario Review, Chelsea and New South. Nikitas received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York College at Brockport and an Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Nikitas" second novel, The Long Division, was published by Minotaur Books in October, 2009.
Nikitas" work has been translated into several languages including Japanese and German.
The German translation, Scheiterhaufen, was selected as "Crime Novel of the Month" by Radio House Europe. Nikitas currently teaches English and Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Eastern Kentucky University.