Natassja Schiel

Natassja Schiel is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California, Riverside. She is writing a memoir about working as an exotic dancer in Guam.

“There Are No Rules for Coloring”: Chris Offutt on His Father

A review of Chris Offutt’s memoir of his father, a science-fiction writer and pornographer....

NATASSJA SCHIEL

MEMOIR & ESSAY

A Conversation with Carolina De Robertis on Immigration, Sexuality, and the True Origins of the Tango

Carolina de Robertis is a Uruguayan-American author and has written three internationally best-selling novels — all set in the Río de la Plata region....

NATASSJA SCHIEL

FICTION

Commodification, Objectification, and the Corporatization of Exotic Dance

JESSICA BERSON, author of The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business, worked as a stripper for approximately one year to help make her way through graduate school, and only after that decided to research and write about stripping as ...

NATASSJA SCHIEL

NONFICTION