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, and the Craigardan Artist Residency. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Fiction at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches creative writing and serves as advisory editor at Nashville Review.