Natalie Southworth’s short stories have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the US, and the UK, including The North American Review, The Moth Magazine, The Brooklyn Review, Canadian Notes & Queries, The New Quarterly, Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, Riddle Fence and elsewhere. Her work has been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Award and The Fish Prize, won The Brighton Prize, placed third in The Moth Short Story Prize, as selected by Mark Haddon, and longlisted for The Hope Prize. 

Natalie has been awarded grants, fellowships and residencies from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Sage Hill Summer Writing Program and The Vermont Studio Center. 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. She is working on a novel.