Natalie Lund: On Grief and Unanswered Questions in YA Fiction YA author Natalie Lund shares how she handles the subject of death for a YA audience in her latest novel The Sky Above Us. Author: The Sky Above Us (April 13, 2021; Penguin Random House/Philomel Books) and We Speak In Storms (September 2019; Penguin Random House/Philomel Books), a 2020 ITW Thriller Award nominee and an Illinois Reads 2020 selection. A graduate of Purdue University's MFA program, where she served as the fiction editor of The Sycamore Review, she is also a former middle and high school teacher. She lives in Chicago with her husband. You can visit her online at natalielund.com.