Ivan Niccolai is an Australian-Italian-German writer living in Melbourne. He is the author of short story collection Like You Have a Choice and the novel The Swear Tax.
His short fiction, essays, and prose poetry appear in Best Small Fictions 2025, Triple Ampersand, and Ink in Thirds. He writes at Minor Observations on Substack.
Part road story, part reflection on the complexities and absurdities of contemporary corporate culture, The Swear Tax is a moving, lyrical, wryly humorous story of male friendship. The odd-couple adventure follows two software salesmen across the Midwest as they try to land a whale: a big account with a life-changing commission.
Welcome to Melbourne, a city where the coffee is single-origin and the existential dread is locally sourced.
