Jesse Nathan

Raised in northern California and rural Kansas

Reading with Robert Hass (October 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-5vehD2JU

Reading at Lunch Poems at UC Berkeley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guffhzj9pFw

More information: www.jessenathan.net

EGGTOOTH (Unbound Edition Press, 2023) selected by Peter Campion

Winner of the 2024 New Writers Award

Finalist for the 2024 Golden Poppy Award; finalist for the Medal Provocateur/Eric Hoffer Award, long-list finalist for the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize

Poetry published in the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Kenyon Review (in "Nature's Nature"), American Poetry Review, The Believer, BOMB, Boston Review, Brick, Fence, Harvard Review, The Nation, the New Republic, Image, the Hopkins Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Revel, LitHub, Smartish Pace, Subtropics, Virginia Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva

Poems anthologized at the Best American Poetry Blog, ed. by David Lehman, and The Experiment Will Not Be Bound, ed. by Peter Campion

Prose published in the New York Times, the Threepenny Review, and Tin House

Fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, the Kansas State Arts Commission, Bread Loaf, the Ashbery Home School, and the Community of Writers

Lecturer, English Department, UC Berkeley

Co-Founder, the McSweeney's Poetry Series