Nicholas Smith

Nicholas K. Smith is the author of "Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers." His work has appeared in Esquire, GlobalPost, the Vienna Review and in the Tucson Weekly, among others. He has worked at The Earth Institute at Columbia University as a research assistant for the science news site GlacierHub.org. He has won numerous journalism awards including the first place in the community reporting category from the Arizona Press Club and contributed to the Tucson Weekly’s first place award for best blog initiative from the Suburban Newspaper Association. Nicholas is also a 2014 Lynton Book Writing Fellow from Columbia University. He currently lives in Vienna, Austria and is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School with a masters of science degree in journalism. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arizona.