Natalie Southworth’s short stories have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the US, and the UK. They have won The Brighton Prize, placed third in The Moth Magazine International Short Story Prize, placed second in Prairie Fire’s McNally Robinson Booksellers Short Fiction Contest and were finalists for The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Award and The Fish Prize, among others. Her work has also appeared in The North American Review, The Brooklyn Review, Canadian Notes & Queries, Grain Magazine, Riddle Fence and elsewhere. Her writing has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Sage Hill Summer Writing Program. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Originally from England, she worked for several years as a journalist, including for The Globe and Mail, in Toronto and Vancouver before settling with her husband and children in Montreal, where she works in environmental communications.