[7] He now hails from Wimberley,[8] a small town in the Hill Country of Texas where he has lived with his wife, Ashley, since 2013.

Nathan holds an interdisciplinary PhD in English and Journalism[9] with an emphasis in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Oklahoma.

[10][2] After teaching at OU for almost twenty years, he returned to the Austin area to be closer to the music scene there and tours the country full-time as a poet, musician, and workshop leader.

[13] Brown has taught many writing workshops, including writing family stories at the Moore Library,[14] the Writers Workshop at Norman Public Library,[15] and ekphrastic poetry at the Fred Jones Museum of Art,[16] He was an artist-in-residence at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Brown edited the 2014 anthology Oklahoma Poems and their Poets which includes poetry by several notable poets, including Joy Harjo, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Benjamin Myers, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Carol Hamilton, Francine Ringold, and N. Scott Momaday.