Natalya Anderson is a writer and former ballet dancer from Toronto. She completed a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, and a Bachelor of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Natalya has written extensively about racial inequality, healthcare, Canadian family businesses, and the performing arts. Her writing currently appears regularly in Postmedia publications, and has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Poetry Review, and Arc Poetry. She has been a winner of the Bridport Prize for poetry, the Moth Poetry Prize, and other notable literary prizes in the UK, Ireland and Canada.

Natalya is married to a very tall Irish man, and they have a 12-year-old son.

(Photograph by Richard Lautens)