Natalie Kusz

Born 1962

M.A. and M.F.A. from UAF

L.A. to Alaska at 7

Sled dog accident

Mother by 16

Mother by 19

Ill father at 29

Father by 32

Bethel College, Harvard University, and EWU

O, Harper's, Threepenny Review, McCall's, Real Simple, and The New York Times

Intro to Poetry EWU fall of '11

Oprah-How One Woman Learned to Love Being Fat

Road Song by Natalie Kusz

The author of this memoir has suffered so much in her 27 years that writing about it involved a risk. "Road Song" could have been a saccharine tract about the triumph of the human spirit or such a painful tale that even reading it would hurt. Instead it's a calm, reflective affirmation of family love.