Nathan Gower, PhD in Humanities '17

"I'm so grateful for my time in the Humanities PhD program for many reasons, including the opportunity it gave me to develop meaningful and lasting relationships with peer scholars and professors, which has given me a professional network that has lasted long after my time in the program concluded. The framework of the creative dissertation was perfect for me, as the required critical component allowed me to carefully examine my creative artifact in ways that continue to affect my career choices today. Each time I begin a creative project, I'm careful to ask myself what critical conversation that project is likely to engage, and how I'd like to contribute to that critical conversation."

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Nathan Gower is the author of The Act of Disappearing (Mira Books / HarperCollins), a novel hailed by the Washington Post as one of "ten noteworthy books" upon its publication in May 2024. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Spalding University and a PhD in humanities with emphasis in aesthetics and creativity from the University of Louisville. His short-form work has been published in Had, Baltimore Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Louisville Magazine, Louisville Review, New Southerner, Santa Fe Literary Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review and elsewhere. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is also on faculty at the low-residency Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University.  He has previously served in editorial positions at the Louisville Review, Campbellsville Review, and Russell Creek Review. His work is represented by literary agent Danielle Bukowski of Sterling Lord Literistic.

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