Natalie Kusz Explained

Natalie Kusz
Occupation:	Memoirist
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	University of Alaska Fairbanks

Natalie Kusz (born 1962) is an American memoirist.

Life

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]

Awards

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

Works

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

Anthologies

• Book: Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology . registration. 20 . On Being Invisible. Donna Jarrell . Ira Sukrungruang. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2005. 978-0-15-603022-9 .
• Book: The Best American essays . Ian Frazier . Robert Atwan. Ticknor & Fields. 1997. 978-0-395-85695-6.
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=tm8IWrsM9q0C&q=Natalie+Kusz&pg=PA100. Retired Greyhound II. Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs. Random House, Inc.. 1999. 978-0-609-80379-0 . Amy Hempel . Jim Shepard .
• Book: The American voice anthology of poetry. registration. 62 . Persistent Heat. Frederick Smock. University Press of Kentucky. 1998. 978-0-8131-0956-5 .
• Book: The Pushcart prize, XV: best of the small presses. Bill Henderson. Pushcart Press. 1990. 978-0-916366-65-0.

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.^[7]

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: EWU Natalie Kusz . www.ewu.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100604211110/http://www.ewu.edu/x66291.xml . 2010-06-04.
2. Web site: Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University . www.ewumfa.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071105000523/http://www.ewumfa.com/kusz.htm . 2007-11-05.
3. Web site: Natalie Kusz Harper's Magazine. 2016-05-15.
4. Book: McCall's. 1990-01-01. McCall Publishing Company. en.
5. http://www.spokesmanreview.com/interactive/bookclub/interviews/interview.asp?IntID=31 Interview
6. Web site: Thirty-Eight Women Appointed Fellows at Bunting Institute. Affairs. Harvard Office of News and Public. www.news.harvard.edu. 2016-05-15.
7. News: 'Get Lost, Buddy, I've Done My Time'. Cyra McFadden. December 16, 1990. The New York Times.