Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities whose poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and the anthologies How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope and Sonnets from the American: An Anthology of Poems and Essays. He is the author of the debut collection Doomsday Bunker and the chapbook Fail Better! Feel Great!! and editor of Queerly.