The Force of Such Beauty

Nate Brown is a fiction writer and editor whose stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Five Chapters, REAL, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. He’s the managing editor of the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction. He lives in Baltimore and teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Nate Brown

The Faustian Bargain of Princess Stories: A Conversation with Barbara Bourland

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

<h4>Jenny Zhang is the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, the nonfiction chapbook Hags, and the ebook The Selected Jenny Zhang. Her short story collection Sour Heart is forthcoming from Random House in fall 2017. She’s a 2016 National Magazine Award finalist and holds degrees from Stanford University and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in New York.</h4>

Jenny Zhang

Every Day, a Funeral: Jenny Zhang and Nate Brown in Conversation

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Nate Brown is a fiction writer and editor whose stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Five Chapters, REAL, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. He’s the managing editor of the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction. He lives in Baltimore and teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University.