The steps along my path to published writer have been many; teacher, traveler, wife and mother. Some highlights:

 

~ I have been teaching elementary school for 19 years in the U.S., Italy and Japan. I’ve taught Kindergarten, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grades as a classroom teacher and worked with grades 1 to 6 as an ESL specialist.   I’m currently a full-time school librarian in Fairfax County, Virginia.

 

2. Aside from living overseas, I’ve been lucky enough to travel from the glaciers of Juneau, Alaska to the Eifel Tower in Paris to the temples of Kyoto, Japan. I’ve ridden at breakneck speed in a taxi at sundown on the last day of Ramadan in Cairo, walked along the Great Wall of China, and argued with an Indonesian policeman who stopped us for running a green light in Ubud, Bali. I remain an incurable traveler.

 

Over the course of my career, I have also been a freelance writer and written Teachers Guides for many children’s books. I also write children’s book reviews at Biblio Links.

 

As an author, I am represented by Erin Murphy at the Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

Natalie Dias Lorenzi

• Website: natalielorenzi.com/