Popular Longing

Natalie Shapero (born in Chester, Pennsylvania) is an American poet known for dark wit, sardonic intelligence, and formally restrained engagement with mortality, motherhood, and contemporary American life. She earned a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in Poetry from Ohio State University, and a JD from the University of Chicago. She is the author of No Object (Saturnalia Books, 2013), winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award; Hard Child (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize; and Popular Longing (Copper Canyon Press, 2021). Her poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review. She has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and teaches at the University of California, Irvine.