Nate Brown Faculty Co-Director, Arts Program

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

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 where he coordinates the university’s Common Question initiative.

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.

His fiction and creative nonfiction explore how the Earth Crisis effects human and animal communities, and his JHU courses include community engaged seminars and workshops that center eco-narratives, ecological writing, and environmental journalism.