Nate Pritts Nate Pritts grew up in Syracuse NY &, while working at a series of comic book, record & book stores, got his BS in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Brockport (1995). From 1997-2000 (except for a brief crisis of faith that found him working third shift at a warehouse) Nate taught business writing & communication, along with psychology & ESL, at a 2-year business college, working with a nontraditional student base of accountants & paralegals & information technology professionals. When he got his MFA (2000, Warren Wilson College NC) he quit his job & stumbled into freelance corporate training which lasted until he got sick of it (3 months). A one-month writing residency at the Ucross Foundation in WY followed; Nate now finds himself back in academia, working on his Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing at the UL Lafayette. His poems have been in Poet Lore, Evansville Review, the Bitter Oleander & one chapbook of his poems, Figures, was released by curvature press as a companion catalog to a showing of watercolors by Carlo Pastore Jr.; his second chapbook, Hellbent, is from Lazy Frog Press. Currently he is working on having some of his poems adapted as comic books.

Nate’s Work So Far

TEACHING

2000 Corporate Trainer, TMD Consulting, Syracuse, NY: E-commerce, Grant & Proposal Writing, Business Communication.

1997-2000 Adjunct Instructor, Bryant & Stratton Business Institute, Syracuse, NY: English Foundations, Math Foundations, ESL Tutoring, Freshman Composition, College Research & Writing, Advanced Composition & Writing, General Psychology, Oral Communications, Business Communication, Critical Thinking.

CHAPBOOKS

Hellbent, Lazy Frog Press, 2001 (forthcoming)

Figures, curvature press, 2000

JOURNALS

2001  Louisiana Review, “Bethlehem & Other Points East,” “What Transparent Din,” “Que Sera Sera,” “Whale Lifted from Rocks,” “The Hitch” & “Relation of the Poet to Day Dreaming” (forthcoming)

2001  Sulphur River Literary Review, “Ghazal: Alone, Without” & “Leaving”

2001  Southwestern Review, “Apeman”

2000  The Bitter Oleander, “Chagall’s The Lovers”

2000  Evansville Review, “Sympathetic Flames”

2000  Sulphur River Literary Review, “A Constellation,” “Mostly Silence” & “Waiting for Slow Sleep”

1999  The Bitter Oleander, “Small Deceptions”

1999  Pipsissewa, “Paths”

1999  Poet Lore, “Lament”

1998  The Bitter Oleander, “Casting,” “Dredging the Dark,” “June Night” & “Night Talk”

1998  Blue Mesa Review, “Falling Through Night Sky”

1997  The Bitter Oleander, “Once Again” & “Reflected Moon”

1997  ELF:Eclectic Literary Forum, “Drifting on canal waters”

Nate Pritts on UL-Lafayette

Louisiana, in general, supports the arts like almost no other place I’ve seen; the art galleries in town have monthly shows that are always well supported by the community & our own Graduate Reading series draws its fair share of people unaffiliated with the university. If you can get past the heat, Louisiana is a great place to live & write. The courses at the university can be challenging but have direct relation to any writing project you may be involved in—rather than taking energy from your creative effort, your studies are designed to increase your focus & lead you to new insights. As a whole the faculty is incredibly supportive of your efforts & most helpful as you try to figure out which direction to head in as you take your first steps towards “career.” That, to me, has been the most important part of the program here. Intelligent peers (faculty & student) help you sort through all the nonsense this world asks of us so we can keep our attention where it needs to be (on the writing). Coming to UL Lafayette makes you a part of a diverse writing community, one that’s happy to see you succeed & happier to be able to help in whatever way it can.

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