Nathaniel Bellows
is a writer, visual artist, and singer-songwriter, based in New York City. He is the author of two novels—On This Day (HarperCollins) and Nan: A Novel in Stories (Harmon Blunt Publishers)—and a collection of poetry, Why Speak? (W.W. Norton). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, and many other magazines, periodicals, and websites. He has performed his music in the US and abroad and is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA) and Columbia University (MFA).