Gower, Nathan

Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor, Creative Writing , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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gowern@uncw.edu

910.962.3070

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Academic Article
- Reading Photographs as Texts for Narrative Inspiration. Crime Reads. 2024-05-01
- The Stories (and Life) of Breece D’J Pancake. The Campbellsville Review. 7:61-5. 2014-04-01
- Madness Defamiliarized: The Value of Poetic Description of Mental Illness. Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. 8:29-37. 2014-01-01
- Why We Like the Story Anyway: Creating and Developing Unsympathetic Protagonists. The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices. 1. 2010-10-01
Book
- The Act of Disappearing: A Novel. MIra Books / Harper Collins. 2024-05-01
Document
- The Rabbit Nest. Bellevue Literary Review. 2025-10-01
- Don't Go Unless You Mean It: A Novel Excerpt. Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature. 2025-09-01
- How We Go On Eating. HAD (Hobart Companion). 2022-08-01
- The In-Between (Excerpt). The Louisville Review. 2019-11-01
- Can I Have Your Number?. Santa Fe Literary Review. 77-84. 2018-10-01
- Can I Have Your Number?, Dir. Evan Magruder. . 2017-10-01
- No Crying Over Spilled Coffee, Dir. Keith Nixon, DePaul University. . 2015-01-01
- 50 Kisses. Living Spirit Pictures, Dir. Chris Jones. 2014-12-01
- Speaking Opossum. New Southerner Literary Edition. 2014-12-01
- Just Keep Digging. Emerson Review. 2014-10-01
- A Little Help. Louisville Magazine. 95-99. 2013-12-01
- Digging the Hole. Baltimore Review. 64-65. 2012-04-01
- Colton's Big Night. Dir. Sebastian Solberg, Prod. Jassa Ahluwalia. Sunrock Prodictions. 2012-01-01
- Frozen. 94 Creations Journal. 2012-01-01
- In This Light. Birmingham Arts Journal. 17. 2012-01-01
- Just Keep Digging. Valparaiso Fiction Review. 87-121. 2012-01-01
- Heather. Paradigm. Weiss Issue. 2010-05-01
- What's There to Talk About?. Fried Chicken and Coffee. 2010-05-01
- The Water. Connections Literary Journal. 12. 2006-05-01
- Uncle Freddy's Eulogy. Connections Literary Journal. 21-24. 2006-05-01

Presentations

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- Western Kentucky University Guest Workshop, Invited Guest Workshop and Reading 2026-02-01
- The Music of a Scene: Balancing Tension with Consonance, Dissonance, and Tonal Surprise, North Carolina Writers’ Network Annual Conference 2025-11-07
- Faculty Reading, North Carolina Writers' Network Fall Conference 2025-11-01
- CHAIR/ROOM/SKY: Writing About Place, Write Wilmington 2025-10-01
- Panel reading, discussion, and signing, Punch Bucket Literary Festival 2025-09-19
- The Most Honest Lies: Narrative Fiction and the Art of Storytelling, Women’s Club of Louisville 2025-03-19
- Discussion and signing, Kentucky Book Festival 2024-11-02
- In Conversation with Simon Van Booy, Book Talk and Public Reading 2024-10-22
- Making a Killing in the Literary World: A Mystery Panel Discussion, Louisville Book Festival 2024-10-18
- Book Talk and Public Reading, Les Bleus Literary Salon 2024-09-24
- Book Talk and Public Reading, Book Talk and Public Reading 2024-09-20
- Gathering of Authors, Gathering of Authors 2024-08-24
- Radio Interview with David James, Radio Interview 2024-07-25
- In Conversation with Joey Goebel, Book Talk and Public Reading 2024-06-20
- In Conversation with Katrina Kittle, Book Talk and Public Reading 2024-06-08
- In Conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan, A Mighty Blaze: Crime Time, Live Online Broadcast, Celebration of New Works 2024-06-04
- In Conversation with Erin Keane, Book Talk and Public Reading 2024-05-28

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