Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University and an Editor-at-Large of the Kenyon Review. Her poetry collection, No Object, was published by Saturnalia Books in 2013, and her writing has appeared in the Believer, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Progressive, and elsewhere.

Natalie holds degrees in creative writing and in law; she has worked as a litigation fellow with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and she has taught at Kenyon College, the Ohio State University, and the Columbus College of Art and Design.