Nathan Blum’s work is featured or forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, Selected Shorts, New England Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, The Rumpus, Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere. He has received support from the Corporation of Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, McCormack Writing Center, Craigardan Arts, and Bowdoin College, as well as nominations for the PEN/Dau Story Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He earned his MFA in Fiction at Vanderbilt University, where he served as a College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellow. He is currently working on a collection of stories and a novel.