Natalie Baszile

Natalie is the author of Queen Sugar, soon to be adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay of Selma fame, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN, Oprah’s television network. Natalie has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers where she was a Holden Minority Scholar. An early version of Queen Sugar won the Hurston Wright College Writer’s Award, was a co-runner up in the Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Novel-in-Progress competition, and excerpts were published in Cairn and ZYZZYVA. Her non-fiction work has appeared in The Rumpus, Mission at Tenth, and in The Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 9. She is a former fiction editor at The Cortland Review, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Natalie lives in San Francisco with her family. Discover more about Natalie at nataliebaszile.com.

Spring 2017 Course: The Importance of Place in Fiction: Bruised Landscapes and Species of Light