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. Her work appeared in O, Harper's, Threepenny Review, McCall's, Real Simple, and The New York Times. Awards 1989 Whiting Award 1999-2000 Radcliffe College's Bunting Institute fellowship 1995 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship Works Anthologies 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. References External links Profile at The Whiting Foundation 1962 births University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni Harvard University faculty American memoirists Living people Writers from Alaska American women memoirists American women academics 21st-century American women