Nathan Alling Long grew up in rural Appalachia, worked for five years on a queer commune in Tennessee, and now lives in Philadelphia. Their work appears on NPR, and in various publications, such as Best Small Fictions 2023, Best Microfictions 2020, Tin House, the Masters Review, Electric Lit, and Witness. The Origin of Doubt, their collection of fifty short fictions, was a 2019 Lambda Award finalist.
