Jesse Nathan’s poems appear in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. His work has been supported by fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Ashbery Home School, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Nathan has a PhD in literature from Stanford. His interviews with writers are included in the series “Short Conversations with Poets,” published by McSweeney’s, and he’s a founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. Nathan is a lecturer in the English Department at UC Berkeley.
He attended the Community of Writers in 2015 and 2018.