Natalie Shapero is the author of the poetry collections Popular Longing, Hard Child, and No Object. Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, Granta, the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere. She teaches writing as an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine and previously taught as Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University. Her awards include a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, a shortlist designation from the Griffin Poetry Prize, and an Assets for Artists residency fellowship from The Studios at MASS MoCA. Formerly a civil rights litigation fellow with the nonprofit Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Shapero lives in Los Angeles.