Natalie is an English Literature PhD candidate from University of Liverpool UK, having previously completed a masters in Literature and Modernity at University of Edinburgh and undergraduate degree in English Literature at Durham University. Her research focuses on contemporary trauma literature and theory, particularly the representation of the traumatised body in fiction and popular engagement with trauma fiction in online spaces. She is also a freelance writer and has had other work published in The Independent, Refinery29, i Paper, and VICE.