Nate Klug was born in Minnesota and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended Roxbury Latin in West Roxbury, MA (graduated 2004), and went on to study English at the University of Chicago (graduated 2008). He is currently a Master of Divinity student at Yale Divinity School and is a candidate for ordained ministry in the United Church of Christ. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the Christian Century, Literary Imagination, Poetry, the Yale Review, and Zoland Poetry Annual.