Natalie Lima nació en Miami, Florida, el 12 de junio de 1986. De ascendencia puertorriqueña y cubana, se crio entre Hialeah, Florida, y Las Vegas, Nevada. Actualmente reside en Indianapolis, Indiana. Es escritora y profesora de escritura creativa en Butler University en Indianapolis. Sus ensayos y trabajos de ficción han sido publicados en Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, The Offing, Catapult, y en las antologías Sex and the Single Woman (Harper Perennial, 2022) y Body Language (Catapult, 2022). Ha sido honrada en Best Small Fictions (2020) y mencionada en dos ocasiones en Best American Essays (2019 y 2020). Ha recibido becas de PEN America Emerging Vooices, Bread Loaf, Tin House, VONA/Voices Workshop, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, además de una residencia de Hedgebrook.
Natalie Lima was born in Miami, Florida, on June 12, 1986. She is of Puerto Rican and Cuban ancestry, and was raised in Hialeah, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a writer and creative writing professor at Butler University in Indianapolis. Her essays and works of fiction have been published in Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, The Offing, Catapult, and in the anthologies Sex and the Single Woman (Harper Perennial, 2022) and Body Language (Catapult, 2022). She has been honored in Best Small Fictions (2020) and mentioned twice in Best American Essays (2019 and 2020). She has received scholarships from PEN America Emerging Voices, Bread Loaf, Tin House, VONA/Voices Workshop, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, in addition to doing a residency at Hedgebrook.