Nathan Long lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing and gender and sexuality studies at Stockton University. Nathan’s writing has won various awards, including a Truman Capote Literary Scholarship, a Mellon Foundation grant, four Pushcart nominations, and scholarships to Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences. His work appears on National Public Radio (US) and in over a hundred publications, including in Tin House, Story Quarterly, Fiction International, Master’s Review, Best Micro Fiction 2020 and Best Small Fiction 2023. Nathan’s collection of fifty short stories, The Origin of Doubt, was a finalist for a 2019 Lambda Award.