Natasha Friend (born April 28, 1972 in Norwich, New York) is an American author.

[4] Friend was born in a town in upstate New York, to an English professor father and poet/actress mother.

Friend also served as director of the Brimmer and May Summer Camp in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Friend's writing has appeared in Family Fun magazine and the book Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul.

[5] In 2004, her first book, the young adult fiction novel Perfect, won the Milkweed Prize for Children’s Literature.