NATASHA BURGE

Natasha Burge is a writer from the Arabian Gulf. She has a Ph.D. in creative writing and previously was the writer-in-residence at the Qalat al-Bahrain Site Museum. Her work has been published around the world, anthologized, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and translated into Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. Her book Drifts, a memoir of autism and transcultural identity, is out now. Drifts was a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her upcoming novel, The Way Out, a metaphysical thriller, will be out in September. The Way Out was a longlist honoree for the Dzanc Prize for Fiction.