Natalie Grant

Natalie Grant has spent much of her life in Western North Carolina and is a veteran public school teacher and has spent most of her career as the only high school language arts teacher at a rural k-12 school.. She writes both fiction and poetry. She is inspired by the landscape of her mountain home and its people, the many storytellers in her family, her students and their lives, and her daughter, Gabrielle. She spends more time helping people learn to write both academically and creatively, than she does on her own writing. Currently, she is writing short stories and hopes to complete a volume of poetry entitled The Language of Bones. Her educational background includes an MFA in creative writing from the University of the South's School of Letters, an MA in English from Western Carolina University, and a BA in History and English from Berea College.