Meet the Instructor

Natalie Serianni

Natalie Serianni is a Seattle-based writer, instructor and mother of two. Her personal essays and short nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, HuffPost, Brevity, Insider, Scary Mommy, Literary Mama, ParentMap, The Keepthings, and the Manifest-Station, among other publications. Her essay “Subtle Shifts” was included in the 2021 anthology, “The Pandemic Midlife Crisis: Gen X Women on the Brink.” Her writing explores the intersection of midlife parenting and long-held grief.

Natalie is an award-winning teacher who has taught writing and composition courses at a range of higher education institutions over the last 22 years, including small private liberal arts schools, state universities, and at a Seattle-area two-year college, where she has been tenured faculty for the past fifteen years. She teaches introduction to the personal essay classes at the Muse Literary Center and Hugo House.