Natalka Burian

Natalka Burian received an MA from Columbia University where she studied Eastern European literature with an emphasis on the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. She is the co-owner of two bars, Elsa and Ramona, and City of Daughters, a line of specialty cocktail goods. She is the co-founder of the Freya Project, a fundraising reading series, which supports small, non-profit organizations doing crucial work in communities that do not always support that work. She is also the author of the novel Welcome to the Slipstream; her latest is Daughters of the Wild.