Nathalie

Nathalie van Walsum Fuson was born in Bucharest to Dutch diplomat parents, and grew up in Romania, Switzerland, Brazil, New York and Washington DC. She speaks Dutch, English, Portuguese and French. As a teenager and in her twenties she modeled with the Ford Models agency in New York, and for several months lived with various other young models in the house of legendary agent Eileen Ford, an experience upon which The Luckiest Girls is loosely based. She studied Fine Arts at New York University and received a MA from Columbia University in Cultural Anthropology. After modeling Nathalie worked in the field of international relief and development for several years before focusing on her fiction writing. Her short stories have appeared in Cicada and The MacGuffin. Currently Nathalie lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two teenage daughters. The Luckiest Girls is her debut novel.\n