Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who lived in California for a decade. Currently she is pursuing PhD in Creative Writing. She has an MA in Writing from Swinburne University and worked as a Coordinator at a Writing Centre in a California city college. My work has appeared in Cordite, Griffith Review, Entropy, Southerly, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal and Writer’s Digest. She has won the the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize (2018), the KSP Poetry Prize (2019) and has been nominated for a Pushcart Award in the U.S.. In 2019 Ginninderra Press released her debut poetry collection First Blood.