Natalie Serber grew up in a round red house in Santa
Cruz, California, six blocks from the ocean. She has an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. Serber's work has appeared in
The Bellingham Review, Inkwell Magazine, Third Coast, Fourth Genre, and
Hunger Mountain. In addition, she has won the
John Steinbeck Award, the Tobias Wolff Award, the H.E. Francis Award, and was
shortlisted in
Best American Short Stories. Her collection of short stories,
Shout Her Lovely Name, was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.