Welcome to Florilegium.

I’m Natasha Burge, a Saudi-born American living in the Arabian Gulf and a writer of weird books. Drifts, my debut, is a memoir of autism and transcultural identity, and The Way Out is a surreal psychological thriller set in a souq in the Gulf. I hold a PhD in creative writing and my work has been published around the world, anthologised, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, made a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Dzanc Prize for Fiction. You can find links to my other writing here.

Florilegium, in medieval Latin, refers to a collection of writings, but literally means a gathering of flowers. This particular gathering of flowers will include musings on enchantment, the Arabian Gulf, autism poetics, transculturality, skoliogeography, wild saints, nascent explorations of Christianity from a former atheist, and probably more.

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