Natasha Stagg is a writer and editor based in New York City.[1]
Early life and education
Stagg grew up in Tucson, Arizona.[2] She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where her writing won a Hopwood Award for nonfiction[3] and the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.[4] She moved to New York City[5] and has since attended residencies such as Yaddo[6] and KW Institute in Berlin.[7]
Work
Stagg published her first book, Surveys, in 2016 through Semiotext(e)/Native Agents.[8] The coming of age novel follows 23-year-old Colleen, a mall employee in Tucson, 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 influencers on Instagram and Twitter.[9]
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.[10] The book features essays on The Real Housewives of New York, Abercrombie & Fitch and Marc Jacobs, Alexandra Marzella, Kim Kardashian, Russian-red boots, PR jobs, and fundraising parties.[11][12]
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.[13]