Natasha Stagg is a writer and editor based in New York City.

Early life and education

Stagg grew up in

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. She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where her writing won a Hopwood Award for nonfiction and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. She moved to New York City and has since attended residencies such as Yaddo and KW Institute in Berlin.

Work

Stagg published her first book, ''Surveys'', in 2016 through

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/Native Agents. The coming of age novel follows 23-year-old Colleen, a mall employee in

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, Arizona, who rises to internet fame by blogging about her semi-famous boyfriend and recent move to sunny Los Angeles, CA. The protagonist's obsession for a never-ending stream of external validation from online followers as well as the constant grooming of her public relationship with her boyfriend has led many critics to describe the novel as a prescient first-hand account of the rise of the phenomena of social media

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on Instagram and Twitter. In 2019, Stagg's second book, titled ''Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019'', was published and included a number of essays, criticism, and auto-fiction on publishing, art, and fashion from the 2010s. The book features essays on

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and

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, Alexandra Marzella,

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, Russian-red boots, PR jobs, and fundraising parties. In 2020, Stagg wrote about Eduardo "Roth" Neira's eco-friendly architecture firm, Roth Architecture, and its newest project, the SFER IK Museion in Mexico. Stagg has written for ''

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'', '' V'', ''

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'', '' Spike Art Magazine'', and ''

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''. She is the former editor of '' V Magazine'' and ''

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'' and her work has been featured in books by

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and Vanessa Place. She frequently writes press releases and exhibition texts for galleries and museums such as

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, Fortmakers, and

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Bibliography

Author

* ''Surveys: A Novel (

/ Native Agents)'' (2016) ISBN 1584351780 * ''Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 (

/ Native Agents)'' (2019) ISBN 1635900964 * ''Artless: Stories 2019-2023 (

/ Native Agents)'' (2023) ISBN 1635901901

Essays

* "Two Stops."

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. 2018 * "The Right Time." Gagosian Quarterly. 2020 * "Out of State." Spike Art Magazine. 2021 * "Wrong Turn."

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. 2023

Interviews

* "A Conversation with Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020)."

. 2020

Short Stories

* "Candy." Mal Journal. 2019 * "Day Shift." Heavy Traffic Magazine. 2024

References

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