Natalie Kusz (born 1962) is an American

memoirist A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiog ...

Life

She graduated from

University of Alaska Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for c ...

with a B.A. and an M.F.A. She taught at Bethel College, and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. She teaches at Eastern Washington University. Her work appeared in ''O,'' ''Harper's,'' ''Threepenny Review'', ''McCall's'', ''Real Simple'', and ''The New York Times.''

Awards

* 1989 Whiting Award * 1999-2000 Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute fellowship * 1995

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

fellowship

Works

Anthologies

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Reviews

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.

References

External links

Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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