Nathan Blum’s writing appears or is forthcoming in New England Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, The Rumpus, Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere. An Iowa Review Award Finalist and 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Story Prize nominee, he has received support from Bowdoin College, Vanderbilt University, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Workshops, and the Craigardan Artist Residency. He received his MFA in Fiction at Vanderbilt University, where he taught creative writing and served as editor at Nashville Review.