Natalie Lima is a Cuban-Puerto Rican writer, raised in Las Vegas, NV and Hialeah, FL. She is a first-generation college graduate of Northwestern University and a graduate of the MFA program in creative nonfiction writing at the University of Arizona. Her essays and fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, The Offing, Catapult, Sex and the Single Woman (Harper Perennial, 2022), Body Language (Catapult, 2022), Witch (Dopamine Books/Semiotex(e), 2025), The Offing 10-Year Anniversary Anthology, 2025, and elsewhere. Lima’s writing has been honored in Best Small Fictions, and noted twice in Best American Essays. She has received fellowships from PEN America Emerging Voices, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House, the VONA/Voices Workshop, the Mellon Foundation, and a Hedgebrook Writers’ Residency. Lima is an assistant professor of English at Butler University and lives in Indianapolis. She is working on a memoir-in-essays about the many absurdities of contemporary US culture and what it means to be all-American today.