Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning disabled author of books for children and adults. His first book, The Outsider, which takes as its subject his late father's struggles with schizophrenia and homelessness, was published by Broadway Books. Nathaniel has forthcoming/recently published poems with North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Red Rock Review, About Place Journal, F(r)iction, Santa Clara Review, Epiphany, and DIAGRAM. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. Read more at NathanielLachenmeyer.com.
I don’t need the eye of a hyena to know what comes next I’ve lived the future so many times now seen its lithe limbs and capable mind dragged down in slow motion and devoured by loss over and over if you handed me its eye stone on a platter I swear I wouldn’t put it under my tongue for… Read more →