Natalie Benson-Greer is a Chicago based writer with a BA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Her short stories  “Backwoods” and  “We Can’t Drown Like Them” are published in Hair Trigger, where she previously worked as an acquisition editor.  During her time at Columbia she worked as a fiction tutor and co-created the only writing group on campus. She has volunteered at Awakenings as an Associate Board member and as a reader for Awakened Voices. Currently, she is a fiction editor for Mulberry Literary Magazine. When she's not writing you can find her around the city working as a bartender or crying at Lake Michigan.