Natalie Villacorta is a writer from McLean, Virginia. After studying biology and English at Brown University, she worked as a reporter for POLITICO. She left journalism to pursue her MFA in creative nonfiction at Oregon State University, graduating in June 2018. She is now a fourth-year PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she is an Albert C. Yates Fellow. Her creative writing has appeared in Hobart, Moss, DIAGRAM and The Offing.