Nathan Jarelle is an author, poet, and first responder. He attended Fairmont Heights High School in Prince George's County, Maryland which was once built as an all-black school during the 1950s. It was beyond Fairmont's walls where Jarelle first developed his taste for literature in the mid-to-late 90s. After graduation in 2001, he studied information technology at Lincoln Technical Institute in Columbia, Maryland before finding himself back at literature upon graduation from the University of Maryland University College. There, he majored in English, earning his bachelor's degree studying the likes of Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Dick Gregory, Harriet Tubman, and a plethora of other brilliant minds of nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and social justice. He went on to earn a spot on the Dean's List, and his impeccable thesis entitled English and Its Prosperity: A collection of Significant Literature was described by his professors as "transformative". In 2005, Jarelle began his career as a freelance author, publishing for various internet websites as a sport's columnist. Along the way, he published several underground eBooks, one of which garnered the attention of the Washington Post and Good Morning D.

C. In April of 2016, his short eBook, Stroke of Luck, a timeless love story providing stroke awareness in young adults went viral. It would later lay the groundwork for his debut novel Beyond Poetry which he began writing in the spring of 2019. When asked where his inspiration came from to write it, he said, "I tried using an outline, several of them, but couldn't string it together. I penned it from my heart," he explained. When asked what advice he could share with other aspiring writers, he said, "You have to believe in what you're writing, even if it's fiction," he emphasized. "Tell the story as if you were there. If it's a crime scene, be the investigator there taking pictures.

Be the paramedic; resuscitate life into your body of work."Jarelle enjoys reading, fishing, family time, traveling, and of course, writing. Stay in touch with Nathan Jarelle by visiting his website at www.natejayreads.com.