Welcome to Florilegium.

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

Drifts: My debut book Drifts is out February 23 from Footnote Press. Drifts is a memoir of autism and transcultural identity that spans continents. In it, I chart my creation of skoliogeography, a form of psychogeography that gives preeminence to autistic modes of perception and expression. Lauren Elkin said Drifts was: “Surreal, vivid, haunting, mischievous, visionary.”

You can order Drifts here and here and you can find links to my other writing here.

About: Natasha Burge is a Saudi-born American writer from the Arabian Gulf. She holds a PhD in creative writing and her 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, and translated into Arabic, Japanese, and Mandarin.

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