Nathan Poole
Nathan Poole is the author of two books of fiction: Father Brother Keeper, a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize; and Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost, selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of the 2014 Quarterly West Novella Contest. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and has served as a Tennessee Williams Scholar, a Milton Fellow, and a Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama.
Reading List
Now There Is Only You
The day before her son eloped, the rains came and the river increased. She recalls the immense, confused sound in the woods behind their home. All day, dense endless thunder. In the evening hailstones gathered in strings along the iron lip of the gutter. By then she’d forgotten the romantic overtones—eloped—word for lovers. She hears […]