Oliver Nash is a writer, teacher, and editor pursuing their MFA at the University of Alabama. They are currently working on a Southern Gothic novel that follows a reluctant witch as she communes with the Swamp and navigates her family’s self-isolation.

Since getting their start in writing by making up horror stories to tell as a camp counselor in 2017, Nash has been published in several literary and speculative magazines. In 2022, they were a finalist or semi-finalist for several chapbook contests. They’re a Truman Capote literary fellow at the University of Alabama, where they most enjoy teaching fiction workshop, exploring nature, and tending to the bullfrog pond in their backyard.

Nash’s multi- and cross-genre writing often aligns or is in conversation with the New Weird, a genre described by Rose O’Keefe of Eraserhead Press as “slipstream with a side of weirdness.” Whether in poetry, fiction, or non-fiction, they are concerned with the interconnectedness of being and the inherent uncanny nature of the world. Their work is in conversation with the philosophical ideas of Timothy Morton and Albert Camus, as well as the literary tradition of ecological horror, the ways in which the non-real can be used to illuminate truth. They are the lead editor for Bizarrchitecture, a magazine of the New Weird.

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