2011 Alumna
Cottage: Fir
BIO: Natalie is the author of Queen Sugar, which has been adapted for a seventh television season by and co-produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. Natalie's new non-fiction book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: African American Farmers, Land & Memory, was released from HarperCollins in April 2021. Natalie has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, VCCA, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi where she was the SFFILM and Bonnie Rattner Fellow. Her non-fiction work has appeared in National Geographic, Lenny Letter, The Bitter Southerner, O, The Oprah Magazine, and numerous anthologies. She has taught fiction at Saint Mary’s College and Sierra Nevada University. Natalie is a current resident at SFFILM.