Natalie Harris teaches fiction and nonfiction in Colby College’s creative writing program. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Laurel Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Eclipse, Red Rock Review, and The Carolina Quarterly. She has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and recently completed her first short story collection, The Pressure of Blood, which was selected as a finalist in this year’s Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.