Nathan Brown has published five collections of poetry: Hobson’s Choice, Ashes Over the Southwest, Suffer the Little Voices (a finalist for the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award), Not Exactly Job, and Two Tables Over. He worked as a professional songwriter and musician for more than fifteen years in and around Oklahoma City, Nashville, and Austin. He has also performed in Israel and Russia, and worked with artists like Cynthia Clawson, Billy Crockett, and Tom Wopat. He has recorded five of his own albums. The two most recent are “Why in the Road” and “Driftin’ Away.” Nathan holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma. He teaches for the Human Relations and Liberal Studies departments at the University of Oklahoma and has also served as the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma.