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Nick Rattner

Nick Rattner is a livestock manager in upstate New York. He holds an MA in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where he was an Inprint Fondren Foundation Fellow and the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. He has served as a Collective Member at Ugly Duckling Presse and as an assistant basketball coach for Northampton High School. His poems, translations, and fiction have appeared in journals including Fence, Colorado Review, Pleiades, and Denver Quarterly, and have been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, Kenyon Writers' Workshop, the Breadloaf Translators' Conference, and Spain's Ministry of Education. He was a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, and has translated books by Yvan Yauri, Salvador Elizondo, and Juan Andrés García Román.

Idylls of Drought

If you asked me where you really were what would you say if you were me. You know the rusted oil cans and glass bottles down inside their long gone fizz. You lifted broken dinner plates in the hedge row …

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