Natalie Benson-Greer is a Chicago-based writer with a BA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She is currently earning her MA in Social Work at the University of Illinois in Chicago with plans to become a therapist. Her short stories  “Backwoods” and  “We Can’t Drown Like Them” are published in Hair Trigger, where she previously worked as an acquisition editor. Her personal essays and hybrid work have been published in Awakened Voices and Raging Oppossum Press. During her time at Columbia she worked as a fiction tutor and co-created the only writing group on campus. Natalie has previously volunteered at Awakenings, a Chicago-based arts nonprofit for survivors of sexual assault, where she served as an Associate Board member and as a reader for Awakened Voices. She also worked as a fiction editor for Mulberry Literary Magazine. When she's not writing you can find her around the city working as a bartender or crying at Lake Michigan.