Natalie is an emerging writer, with works that span from the more literary to the delightfully weird.
Most recently:
🏆 Natalie had two stories place in the 2026 Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable short story contest. Malus Dictus placed 2nd, The Final Performance of Superstar Araminta Choi placed 3rd.
🏆 Natalie made the longlist, representing just 4% of entries, for the 2026 Masters Review Prize for New Narratives.
📘Natalie’s story Auld Lang Syne was published at Quotidian Bagatelle. Read it here.
🏆 Natalie placed 8th in the NYC Midnight Rhyming Story Challenge with her story The Witch in the Wood.
🏆 Natalie was a semi-finalist, missing the shortlist, for the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.
🏆 Natalie received 1st place in the 250-word round of the November 2025 Twisted Tournament.
🏆 Natalie was the overall winner for Twisted Tournament for May 2025.
📘Natalie’s story Talking to Myself was published in Elegant Literature #43, Ghostly Gardens. Download the issue here.
🥈Natalie’s story Missing Ingredients was selected for 2nd place in the Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable 2025 short story contest. Read a profile of Natalie on their website.
Natalie is the archbishop of penguin outreach for the cult of cthulhu. When she has time, she writes about gay witches and women who murder their abusive husbands. And lots of stuff set on Mars. When existing on this material plane, she lives in metro-Altanta area with her final husband, spit-fire daughter, hyper husky-corgi, and himbo orange tabbies.
