尼克·皮佐拉托出生于新奥尔良，在路易斯安那州查尔斯湖长大。他曾在路易斯安那州立大学和阿肯色大学接受教育，在那里他的写作获得了多个奖项。

他的作品发表在《大西洋月刊》、《牛津美国人》、《爱荷华评论》、《密苏里评论》和其他杂志上。他曾入围美国国家杂志奖的决赛，他的短篇小说集《这里和黄海之间》被《诗人与作家》杂志评为2006年五大小说处女作。

皮佐拉托主要以创作和编写《真探》前三季而闻名。他的第一部小说《加尔维斯顿》于 2010 年出版，后来于 2018 年改编成由梅兰妮·洛朗执导的电影。他还曾担任安托万·富卡 2016 年翻拍的《壮丽七人组》的编剧。2021 年，他与富卡商学院的第二部合作作品《The Guilty》上映，该片由杰克·吉伦哈尔主演，由 Netflix 发行。

Nic Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was educated at Louisiana State University and the University of Arkansas, where he received several awards for his writing. 

His work has been published in the Atlantic, Oxford American, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, and other magazines. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and his collection of stories Between Here and the Yellow Sea was named by Poets & Writers magazine as a top five fiction debut of 2006. 

Pizzolatto is primarily known for having created and written the first three seasons of True Detective. His first novel, Galveston, was published in 2010 and later adapted into a film directed by Mélanie Laurent in 2018. He also served as a screenwriter for Antoine Fuqua's 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. 2021 saw the release of his second collaboration with Fuqua, The Guilty, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and distributed by Netflix.