I’m an editor and writer interested in cultural worlds where art, technology, and ideas meet.
Natasha Beranek is an editor and writer whose work explores music, creative communities, and the changing landscape of artistic expression. Through essays, interviews, and journalistic reporting, she documents the environments where musicians, artists, and new ideas take shape, with particular attention to regional creative scenes and experimental artistic practice.
Alongside her journalism, Beranek serves as series editor for Anthropology & Transhumanist Philosophy at Trivent Publishing, where she oversees interdisciplinary book projects examining artificial intelligence, creativity, and the future of human experience. Her editorial and cultural programming work has also included literary events and public conversations bringing together artists, scholars, and technologists to explore emerging questions in contemporary culture.
Beranek holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from University College London. Her research background informs her approach to writing and editing, particularly her ethnographic interest in creative communities, cultural imagination, and the ways artists respond to new technological landscapes.
She is available for editorial collaborations, writing assignments, and cultural programming projects.
Selected Experience
Senior Music Writer, Yucca Brevifolia Magazine (2025–present)
Interviews and cultural reporting on musicians, studios, and creative communities in California’s Hi-Desert
Event Coordinator,The Lizard King Immersive (2026)
A celebration of the musical, lyrical and visual outputs of Morrison through song, spoken word and media presentations
Ph.D, Social Anthropology, University College London (2011)
Performed 18 months of ethnographic research with a Romani community in Czechia
Former Visiting Professor (Miami University, Christopher Newport University, York University) (2013 – 2025)
Professor of cultural anthropology, sociology , Women’s Studies, and Race & Ethnicity Studies at multiple universities (2013-2025)
Series Editor, Anthropology & Transhumanist Philosophy— Trivent Publishing (2022-present)
Oversees interdisciplinary book projects on artificial intelligence, creativity, and the future of human thought
Industry Relations Coordinator, Twentynine Palms Book Festival (Inaugural year, 2023)
Developed panel programming and managed author and speaker relations for a regional literary festival