Natalie Kusz

Natalie Kusz (born 1962) is an American memoirist.

She graduated from University of Alaska Fairbanks with a B.A. and an M.F.A. She taught at Bethel College, and Harvard University. She teaches at Eastern Washington University.^[1][2] Her work appeared in O, Harper's,^[3] Threepenny Review, McCall's,^[4] Real Simple, and The New York Times.^[5]

• 1989 Whiting Award
• 1999-2000 Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute fellowship^[6]
• 1995 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

• Road Song. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1990. ISBN 978-0-374-52827-0.

• Donna Jarrell; Ira Sukrungruang, eds. (2005). "On Being Invisible". Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-15-603022-9.
• Ian Frazier; Robert Atwan, eds. (1997). The Best American essays. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 978-0-395-85695-6.
• Amy Hempel; Jim Shepard, eds. (1999). "Retired Greyhound II". Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-609-80379-0.
• Frederick Smock, ed. (1998). "Persistent Heat". The American voice anthology of poetry. University Press of Kentucky. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8131-0956-5.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (1990). The Pushcart prize, XV: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-0-916366-65-0.

The author of this memoir has suffered so much in her 27 years that writing about it involved a risk. "Road Song" could have been a saccharine tract about the triumph of the human spirit or such a painful tale that even reading it would hurt. Instead it's a calm, reflective affirmation of family love.^[7]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation