Natalie Elliot

Natalie is a novelist, a science writer, and an academic currently based in Brooklyn. She writes stories and essays about life’s origins, mass extinction, rewilding, migration, and what it means to make a home on Earth. Her work has been published in The Broadcast (Pioneer Works), Aeon, Scientific American, Parallax (The Santa Fe Institute), and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a PhD in political science from the University of North Texas. When not writing, she teaches cross-disciplinary courses in classics, history of science, mathematics, literature, philosophy, and music at St. John’s College. This fall, she’ll be working on her literary novel called Megafauna, which follows the life a Montana wildlife conservationist who is compelled to care for a herd of lab-generated mammoths.