Nathan Hoks was born near Denver and grew in various midwestern locales. He studied English and French at Loyola University Chicago, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has received residencies and fellowships from the University of Iowa, the Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Tomaž Šalamun Poetry Center. Reveilles, his first book, was a winner of Salt Publishing’s 2010 Crashaw Prize. The Narrow Circle, his second book, was chosen by Dean Young as a winner of the 2012 National Poetry Series. His chapbook Moony Days of Being was chosen by Matthew Zapruder for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and his third book, Nests in Air, is forthcoming from Black Ocean. He teaches poetry writing at the University of Chicago and the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an editor and printer for Convulsive Editions, a micro-press that publishes hand-made poetry chapbooks.
