Publications
Chapbooks
Gomorrah, Baby, Anchor & Plume, January 2017 [Fiction and photography]
Shine a light, the light won’t pass, MIEL, June 2015 [Essays]
Anthologies
Vestin, Natalie. “Unnatural Acts: A Primer.” The Spirit of Disruption: Landmark Essays from The Normal School, edited by Steven Church, Outpost 19, 2018
Vestin, Natalie “What Never Happened.” Open to Interpretation: Water’s Edge, edited by Clare O’Neill, 2012
Visual art
We Were Here: Cigarette/Deadheads, The Hopper, April 2016 [Ink on paper]
We Were Here: Snake/Mandible, The Hopper, April 2016 [Ink on paper]
Visual essay
Three Hills, Newfound, March 2019
Four Sleepscapes, Atlas and Alice, February 2019
The Flock, formercactus, issue 13, November 2018
Dirty Entry, Noble / Gas Qtrly, issue 205.3, 2018 (winner of the 2018 Birdwhistle Prize in Nonfiction)
Blót, Territory, 2018
Nonfiction, Poetry, and Hybrid
We Insist on All of Our Selves, Consequence, Spring 2023
Rosarium, The Hopper, Fall 2022
Reconciliation/Propitiation, Aôthen Magazine, Summer 2022
The Breast of a Little Bird, Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, Spring 2020
Crush, Birdcoat Quarterly, 2020
Optical Illusions of the Lower Atmosphere, Pleiades, 2020
The Halves, Virga, issue four, fall 2018
The Butterfly Box, great weather for MEDIA, 2018
The Giants of Mountain Iron, Passages North, 2017
90s Recovery Project #1: A Girl with a Needle in Her Eye, The Collapsar, September 2016
this. is everything., Wildness, April 2016
Amok, Timber Journal, 2015
Reductionist Confessions, Image, June 2015
Dance It Viscous, Lumina, volume XIV, 2015
The Word for the Gone Place in the Belly, The Collapsar, December 2014
Unnatural Acts: A Primer, The Normal School, Fall 2014
Sea of Crises, 1966, Spring 2014
How Beautiful Things Hide Themselves, Temenos, Fall 2013
Accidents, South Loop Review, Fall 2013
It Hates Its Double Bond, Bellingham Review, issue 67, Fall 2013
Forms of Wanting, Water~Stone Review, Fall 2013
Again-Walker, The Iowa Review, August 2013
If You Can’t Take It, Puerto del Sol, Summer 2013
How to Own a Building, Prairie Schooner, Spring 2013 (winner of the 2012 Creative Nonfiction Prize)
Compound, Fracture, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring 2013 (winner of the 2013 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize)
The Ones Who Burned, Poydras Review, Winter 2012
The Attraction of Physical Bodies, Sonora Review, issue 62, 2012 (winner of the 2012 Essay Prize)
Everything Here Belongs Somewhere, Switchback, November 2012
Blood Magic, Apeiron Review, issue 1, August 2012
For a While, For the Summer, Identity Theory, March 2012
Osama Pecha Kucha, Chautauqua Literary Journal, 2012
Under Ground, Alligator Juniper, 2012
Blog posts
From 2015 to 2017, I was a regular contributor to Image Journal‘s Good Letters blog. I wrote about faith, science, art, and walking around cities. You can read all of those posts over here.
Awards
Noble / Gas Qtrly 2018 Birdwhistle Prize in Nonfiction
First Prize, Crab Orchard Review 2013 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize
First Prize, Prairie Schooner 2012 Creative Nonfiction Contest, selected by Steven Church
First Prize, Sonora Review 2012 Essay Contest, selected by Lia Purpura
Winner, Loft Literary Center 2010-2011 Mentor Series, selected by Patricia Weaver Francisco and Toi Derricotte
Natalie Vestin 