Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan was raised in northern California and rural Kansas. His first book of poems, Eggtooth, won the 2024 New Writers Award in Poetry. It also won the 2024 Housatonic Book Award and the 2025 Kansas Book Award and was a finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, the Northern California Book Award, the Medal Provocateur/Eric Hoffer Award, and the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. Nathan’s poems appear widely in magazines like The New Republic and The Paris Review, and he was the Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf. His work has also been supported by fellowships from Stanford University, the Arts Research Center, the Community of Writers, the Ashbery Home School, and the Kansas Arts Commission. Nathan teaches literature at UC Berkeley.