Natalie Sharp is a Black queer writer, dancer, and multimedia artist born and raised in southeast Georgia and based in Denver. She completed her B.A. in English Literature at Georgia College and State University in 2013 and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2019.
Sharp was a 2016 and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2017 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow in poetry, a finalist for the 2017 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, and a finalist in the 2023 Black Warrior Review Flash Nonfiction contest. They were also a 2019-2020 Fulbright English Teaching Fellow in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2024, Sharp was awarded the Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship to attend the Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Retreat again, this time in creative nonfiction.
Sharp's poetry and hybrid nonfiction have previously appeared in Foglifter Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Puerto del Sol, BOAAT Journal, Juked, The Shade Journal, and elsewhere. Sharp’s installation and performance work has appeared at the Dairy Arts Center and at east window Gallery in Boulder, CO.
At MacDowell, Sharp worked on a nonfiction writing and performance project recounting their experiences with high-control groups, exile, estrangement, and repair. A prior piece from the project, "On Authority," was a finalist in the 2023 Black Warrior Review Flash Contest.
