Nate Brown is a writer, editor, and teacher whose fiction, criticism, and essays have appeared in a wide range of literary publications including One Story, The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Five Chapters, Carolina Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

Brown has taught creative writing and composition at the University of Wisconsin, through the International Writing Program at the university of iowa, at the George Washington University, and at Georgetown. currently, he is a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University where he has been recognized as an Engaged Faculty Scholar of the Practice at the university’s Center for Social Concern and as affiliated faculty at the Johns hopkins institute for planetary health, where he co-directs jhiph’s arts program.

For a decade, he served as the managing editor of the award-winning literary journal American Short Fiction, where he currently serves as the magazine’s editor-at-large. he also serves on the boards of Writers in baltimore schools and Good contrivance farm, literary nonprofits serving writers and readers in and around baltimore city.

He’s also a terrible painter.