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Author: Natasha Burge

Natasha Burge is a Saudi-born American writer whose family lived in the Arabian Gulf for more than half a century. Her work has been published around the world, anthologised, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, made a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Dzanc Prize for Fiction, and translated into Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. Her debut book Drifts, a memoir of autism and transcultural identity, is out now from Footnote Press.
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08/07/2023

Walking Autistic with Skoliogeography

An Untranslated Experience

by Natasha Burge

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08/23/2021

Drifting In and Out

Writing from the interstice

by Natasha Burge

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03/12/2020

On the Road to the Khaleej

Jack Kerouac in context

by Natasha Burge

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02/28/2019

Living on the Margins

Navigating transculturalism

by Natasha Burge

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03/29/2018

Pearls of Wisdom & Fear

Walking the Pearling Trail in Muharraq

by Natasha Burge

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06/02/2017

Khobar Drift

Myth and memory in Saudi Arabia

by Natasha Burge

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