Natasha Varner

Natasha Varner’s essays have appeared in The Nation, Atlas Obscura, PRX’s The World, Jacobin, The Abusable Past, and Tropics of Meta. She has a PhD in history and her first book, La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2020), was a finalist for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book Award in 2021. Her current work focuses on health seeking, haunting, settler colonialism, and the many other ways the past imprints itself upon the present. She lives in Seattle but Arizona will always be home. See more of her work at www.natashavarner.com.