A winner of the Crashaw Prize for his first collection, Reveilles (Salt Publishing, 2010), Nathan Hoks was born near Denver, Colorado, and studied at Loyola University Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Narrow Circle (Penguin Books, 2013) was selected for the National Poetry Series, and his chapbook Moony Days of Being (Factory Hollow Press, 2017) won the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. He is also the author of Nests in Air (Black Ocean, 2021) and the full-length collection Moony Days of Being (Black Ocean, 2026). He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
