Dr Natalia Liebnitz

Dr Natalia Liebnitz is a Lecturer of Creative Writing at Stirling.

She has published five novels to date, with a further four scheduled for 2025-2027, with large publishing houses such as HarperCollins UK and Penguin Random House US. Written pseudonymously, Natalia's work has been shortlisted for a variety of awards and prizes, including the Nero Book Awards and the Dublin International Literary Prize. She is currently working on her eighth and ninth novels. Primarily publishing in Children's Literature, Natalia is a specialist in YA and Middle Grade Fiction at the University.

Prior to the post, she gained a Master’s in Education in Boston and taught for fifteen years in Scottish and American school systems, working with students with neurodiverse learning styles. She returned to academia with a Master’s in Scottish Literature, before completing a PhD in English (Creative Writing).

Natalia would be very interested in receiving PhD proposals for creative projects on any themes related to her research and publications; for example, speculative fiction, issues of trauma and/or motherhood, neurodiverse voices, typography or experimentation with narrative form, and any projects relating to YA Fiction.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with her with any queries.

Natalia currently teaches on the MLitt programme, undergraduate modules ENGU9C1 and ENGU9C2, and the short fiction block for the International Summer School, titled 'Brief Encounters'.