Natalie D-Napoleon

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon (D-Napoleon) is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle/Walyalup, Australia. She spent the last decade in the United States where she was a Coordinator at a City College Writing Centre. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Meanjin and Australian Poetry Journal. She has won both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize (2018) and KSP Poetry Prize (2019). In 2019 Natalie’s debut poetry collection First Blood was released. Natalie's second poetry collection on motherhood, If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears, is out via Life Before Man Books in late 2023. Currently she is completing a PhD on erasure poetry and historic amnesia.

https://www.nataliedamjanovichnapoleon.net/