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 long listed for the International Frank O’Connor Award; and Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost, selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of the 2014 Quarterly West Novella Contest. His fiction has appeared in Ecotone, Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, and other journals. 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.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2013*

Best American Short Stories 2017*

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