Nathan Poole is a graduate of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. His story “Stretch Out Your Hand” won First Place in Narrative’s Fall 2011 Story Contest and received the 2012 Narrative Prize. His story collection, Father Brother Keeper, was named the 2013 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and his novella, Pathkiller as the Holy Ghost, was published in 2015. Poole lives with his wife in Blueridge, South Carolina.
Photograph by Joshua Rainwater.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Bedwarmer, a short story, in Fall 2021
- Alluvium, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2017
- The Strength of Fields, a short story, in Fall 2014
- Stretch Out Your Hand, a short story, in Winter 2012
- Silas, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012