Natalie Rose Richardson is a writer from Oak Park, Illinois. She's received degrees from the University of Chicago (BA), Northwestern University (MA), and the NYU Creative Writing Program (MFA). Her poetry and prose has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Academy of American Poets, LitHub, Narrative, Orion Magazine, North American Review, The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Arts & Letters, Emergence Magazine, and others, along with several anthologies, including The Golden Shovel Anthology. She's received awards, residencies or fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Foundation, Tin House, The Newberry Library, The Luminarts Foundation, Crab Orchard Review, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the National Student Poets Program. Her work has featured at BBC Radio London, Tedx, WBEZ Chicago, The British Royal Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Poetry Foundation. 

She currently lives in New York City.