No, I’m Not Nate Bargatze

This essay was published in the Winter 2025 issue of Otherwise Engaged: A Literature and Arts Journal, volume 16. The journal is available to purchase through Amazon or the editor’s website.

What started as a simple question asked of me on the sidewalk outside the brewery I work at has taken on a life of its own. I now have an Instagram handle (@notbargatze) dedicated to my life as a comedic doppelgänger.