Sal Nudo is a writer with a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is best known for his novella, The Newspaperman, which was selected as a Book Excellence Award Finalist by Literacy Excellence Incorporated and received the October 2018 Literary Titan Book Award (5 Gold Stars).

Nudo was recognized by Townsend Press in 2025 as a “What I Believe” Essay Award winner. He was a third-place recipient in 2015 of the Marian and Barney Brody Creative Feature Article Writing Award in Journalism from the College of Media at Illinois. He is also a 2019 National Novel Writing Month winner whose writing has appeared in Illinois Alumni magazine, the Mahomet Citizen newspaper, and the online publication Smile Politely.