2021 Resident Spotlight: Natalie Baszile

​Bio: Natalie is the author of Queen Sugar, which is being adapted for television by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. Natalie’s new non-fiction book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Legacy, is forthcoming from HarperCollins (April 2021). Natalie is a resident at SFFILM where she is working on a number of projects including GOOD PEOPLE, a narrative film adapted from her novel-in-progress. Natalie has had residencies at Ragdale Foundation, VCCA, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi where she was the SFFILM and Bonnie Rattner Fellow. Her non-fiction work has appeared in Lenny Letter, The Bitter Southerner, O, The Oprah Magazine, and numerous anthologies. She has taught fiction at Saint Mary’s College and Sierra Nevada University. Natalie lives in Oakland and San Francisco.

​Moderated by: Marjolaine Grappe