NATHANIEL LACHENMEYER

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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 The American Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Red Rock Review, F(r)iction and DIAGRAM. Nathaniel lives outside Atlanta with his family. www.NathanielLachenmeyer.com