Steeped in the Jewish mystical tradition, Natalie Reid (M.A.) for over 25 years has conducted transformational workshops centered on the confluence of creativity, self-awareness, and spirituality. In addition to The Spiritual Alchemist, these workshops include Writing in the Mythological Voice: Elevating the Mundane into Myth, and From Falsehood to Freedom: Writing Our Way out of the Masks We Wear. Sponsors have included the Center for Women and Religion at GTU, Nishmat HaNashim, and various centers for the arts both nationally and internationally. For 14 years she was also a workshop director at the International Women’s Writing Guild’s annual weeklong conference.
Natalie has been writing since she was six and took delight in words. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in publications such as Another Chicago Magazine, eMerge, LIGHT, Natural Bridge, Persimmon Tree, and 13th Moon, and in three anthologies. She has edited an award-winning complex graduate thesis on the nature of consciousness in autism, as well as an early draft of Gail Harris’ Your Heart Knows the Answer. Her novel-in-progress investigates the power of dream to alter a woman’s relationship with time and space.
Since the early 2000s she has also been teaching academic writing to, consulting with, and editing books and papers for European social scientists and other professionals. Her Getting Published in International Journals: Writing Strategies for European Social Scientists (2010; “Revised Edition,” 2018) is now in common use in European universities and research institutes; she presents at international conferences; and she has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2011. When not on the road giving workshops, she enjoys writing and living in New Mexico.