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Natashia Deón is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature, Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, judge for the LA Times Book Prize (Fiction and Debut Fiction), and author of the critically acclaimed novels, GRACE and The Perishing. GRACE was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and awarded Best Debut Novel by the American Library Association’s Black Caucus. A professor of creative writing at UCLA and Antioch University, her personal essays have been featured in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, and other places.
A PEN America EV Fellow (and instructor), Deón has also been awarded fellowships and residencies at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference where she also taught, Prague’s Creative Writing Program, Dickinson House in Belgium, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
Deón was a 2017 U.S. Delegate to Armenia as part of the U.S. Embassy’s reconciliation project between Turkey and Armenia in partnership with the University of Iowa and is a Pamela Krasney Moral Courage Fellow. In that role, she founded REDEEMED, a two-year criminal record clearing and clemency project that paired professional writers and lawyers with those who have been convicted of crimes, and has served as a governor for the Women’s Law Association, Los Angeles.
“Natasha Deón writes with her nerves, generating terrific suspense. And her style is so visual it plays tricks on the imagination – did I just watch that scene? Or did I read it? It’s Ms. Deón’s real and rare ability to make reading a felt, almost physical experience.”-Jennifer Senior, New York Times
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BIRDS OF WAR, a novel - FOLLOW THE JOURNEY
“This isn’t a book. It’s a touchstone. It’s an oracle. It’s a mirror in which you will see your authentic self, reflected on the pages. The Perishing is one part lyrical mystery, one part history lesson you didn’t learn in school, one part time machine. It’s a lush, genre-smashing, philosophical experience of a novel that blew my mind even as it broke my heart.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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“This marriage of period lit and science fiction will plug the Lovecraft Country sized hole in your heart.”
-Keyaira Boone, ESSENCE
“God, The Perishing. Where do I even begin? It’s riveting, my God.”
—Crime Reads
“What do these ghosts want—and why is literary fiction suddenly so full of them? (See: Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders; White Tears, by Hari Kunzru; Grace, by Natashia Deón; The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead.) It’s the past that won’t stay past, to paraphrase Faulkner. The ghosts—most of them, at any rate—want to rest, but they need restitution first.”
—The New York Times
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