Nate Lowe’s essays have appeared in such journals as Ascent and the South Dakota Review and been finalists for contests at the Crab Orchard Review and New Letters. An essay of his, “At the Edge of the Field,” was listed as a Notable Essay of 2006 by Best American Essays and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Lakeland College, in Wisconsin, where he lives with his wife and one-year-old son.

In answer to our question of why he writes, Nate responded:

“Words are amazing things: inanimate black and white shapes on the page that have the ability to emote, teach, and transport us. They are the children of kinesthesis and cognition. And I’m delighted when they sneak up on me. I like to try them on the page and in the ear. They sing to me and tell me when I’m full of shit. They can be deceptively honest. I write so that I can be with words: these ancestors speaking in tongues, these music teachers, guides that light the cave of memory.”

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