His first poetry was published in 1983, by the magazine Coevolution Quarterly, and his first novel, The Lost Coast, and its sequel, The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon, were published by St. His work is widely anthologized, and he has taught poetry by invitation in over fifty schools and universities in Nevada and California. Nightingale is the author of two novels, six books of sonnets, and a travel and history book about Granada. He and Lucy have one daughter, Gabriella. He moved to Granada in 2001, after buying, with his wife Lucy Blake, a carmen in the ancient barrio of the Albayzin. He has lived near London, in Paris, and in Granada, Spain, and traveled worldwide, often to wild country. Nightingale was born in Reno, Nevada, and attended public schools there before being admitted to Stanford University, where he studied literature, religion, and computer science. He divides his time between the San Francisco Bay Area Reno, Nevada and Granada, Spain. Steven Nightingale is an author of books of poetry, novels, and essays. It is a story that shows how we can work together, and what we can create together. In the story of Granada, Nightingale finds our story, all its violence and possibility and beauty, its spiritual longing and artful dreams. Yet Ferdinand and Isabel’s conquest of Granada in 1492 meant the end of the culture whose achievements would empower and enrich the rest of Europe. Al-Andalus brought to Europe the first modern translations of Greek philosophy, advanced mathematics, science, medicine and music, as well as transcendent mystical texts. Granada witnessed a flourishing of poetry, and constructed the Alhambra, one of the most celebrated buildings in Europe.
Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and of Al-Andalus, finding a story of utopian ecstasy, political intrigue, religious exaltation, and scorching anguish. Al-Andalus gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. It stands for the culture of Al-Andalus, composed of Moslems, Jews, and Christians, who lived together in the legendary convivencia of the Spanish Middle Ages. Granada is one of the iconic cities of the world.
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