Natalie Kusz is the author of the memoir Road Song, and has published essays in Harper’s, Threepenny Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple,and other periodicals. Her work has earned, among other honors, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the NEA, the Bush Foundation and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. A former faculty member of Bethel College and of Harvard University, she has been teaching nonfiction at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers, the MFA program at Eastern Washington University since 2001.