Natasha M. Freeman is an author and communications specialist whose writing centres on thought-provoking scientific narratives and journalism, with the aim of uniting people beyond that which divides them. Her fiction has been nominated for New Zealand's Ashton Wylie Book Award, which honours works that contribute to the growth and enlightenment of humanity. Her first non-fiction book, Our Changing Rivers (2005), about the science and practice of fluvial geomorphology, is on the curriculum at Rhodes University.