Radical Red

Nathan Dixon received his PhD in English literature and creative writing from the University of Georgia. His first book, Radical Red, won the BOA Editions short fiction prize. His creative work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Fence, Tin House, Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, Redivider, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at North Carolina Central University and lives with his family in Durham, NC.

• Unidentified Black MaleThe Doctor’s Declarations Tricky Dick Consubstantial Spring Belle Mermaids in the Floodplain The Itch Conquistador

“Nathan Dixon’s masterfully crafted stories back readers into a corner and make them squirm. Challenging and subversive, Radical Red picks at the absurd contradictions and injustices that are woven into the fabric of American democracy.” –Maggie Su, author of Blob: A Love Story“Radical Red is a corrective to a most peculiar trend in American letters. For close to four decades, writers have incrementally squeezed themselves into tighter perceptual and experiential corners. We call it, ‘staying in one's lane.’ While it's true you can't tell another's story, it's all in vain if our stories don't move others, spark the imagination, move the heart, and keep the American conversation alive. Nathan Dixon's galvanic, strange, and beautifully written collection says, ‘I hear you, cousins. Let's keep this thing going.’" –Reginald McKnight, Author of He Sleeps“Philip Roth famously said of American Reality that it instills in the American Fiction writer a kind of professional envy. Nathan Dixon, in the extra extreme fictions found in Radical Red, creates a Reality American Reality must envy for real. These fictions are squared dances of Sydenham’s chorea, crowd sourced unbroken fevered dreams on steroids. All the circuit breakers breaking, all the clocks persistently melting. Dixon is a demented Donald Barthelme dispensing meter-read disgraces, a media influencer Vonnegut doing unstuck loose-limbed tap dances on Bizarro TikTok.” –Michael Martone Author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana and The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne