Natalie Baszile

Natalie Baszile, whose best-selling novel Queen Sugar was adapted for Oprah's TV channel by award-winning director, Ava Duvernay, has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers where she was a Holden Minority Scholar. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles ' Best Books of 2014, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation where she was awarded the Sylvia Clare Brown fellowship, Virginia Center for the Arts, and Hedgebrook