2027 Author-in-Residence

Natalie Baszile has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Her debut novel, Queen Sugar, was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Queen Sugar was adapted for television by Ava DuVernay for the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her nonfiction book, We Are Each Other’s Harvest, is an exploration and celebration of Black farming in America. Her second novel, Friends and Family, will be published by Pamela Dorman books in fall 2027.

Natalie has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and the Djerassi Resident Arts Program where she received the SFFILM and the Bonnie Rattner Fellowships. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Lenny Letter, The Bitter Southerner, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Rumpus.net, and a number of anthologies.  For two years, she was Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College where she taught a fiction workshop in the MFA Program.

Natalie is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and lives in the Bay Area.