About

Nathan Willis lives in Ohio with his wife and son. He writes short stories.

Right now, he may be on the living room floor, pretending to be a train track, or a dinosaur.

He is starting to accept that he will always love the music of the 90’s and early 00’s more than any other era, no matter how much he wishes that weren’t true.

Nathan pretends that he never had a hard time switching from double to single spaces after periods. He will go so far as to say the single space feels natural. Don’t worry. You’ll see right through him.

For a time, Nathan was a fiction reader for The Nottingham Review.

For another time, he was a fiction reader for Outlook Springs.

Nathan is a member of Literary Cleveland. He has not really participated or attended any events, but they make a t-shirt that fits him really well.

Nathan would like to be thought of as a good cook, even when he is not around.

He still thinks he’s going to get to the bottom of this someday.

Nathan is rewatching the entire series of Cheers for the fifth time. At this point, he’s pretty sure the whole thing can be boiled down to probably 20 amazing episodes, 25-30 moderate to severely problematic episodes, 5 episodes that drown in their own attempts at earnestness, and the rest of the episodes are just good. Not great, but better than most other shows then or now.

He also knows its only a matter of time before he starts taking notes, making citations, comes up with accurate numbers and ends up writing a pretty long essay about Cheers.

He has actually already started the essay. The only thing he doesn’t have down yet are the numbers.

Nathan is a Browns fan and as such, has discovered dynamic new levels of disappointment and harbors a very real concern that he can no longer recognize shame.

Nathan knows that it’s only a matter of time before its going to take more than dinosaur noises, train sounds and cartoon electrocutions to make his son smile. He doesn’t know what he is going to do when that day comes and it terrifies him.

Nathan will try to play along and pretend he appreciates and enjoys puns. But he doesn’t, so this is a horrible plan. It only leads to more puns.

Nathan is forever grateful on a daily basis, to the people who have and in many cases continue to support and encourage him in his writing endeavors. It means more to him than he’s ever been able to tell you.

Nathan is not bothered by the weird spacing/formatting issue on the Publications page. He used to be. And he had tried to fix it. But enough time has passed. All of the information is there one way or another. It’s fine.

This formatting thing will probably come up again later.

Nathan needs to spend some time on here updating this very page. He’s going to do that soon. He’s sure of it.