Meet the poet: Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is an award-winning poet, teacher and non-fiction writer based in Walyalup (Fremantle). Her poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, The Found Poetry Review, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal and Writer’s Digest (US). Natalie’s work has been widely anthologised in both the United States and Australia.
Her poem ‘First Blood: A Sestina’ won the prestigious Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. Subsequently, her debut poetry book First Blood (Ginninderra Press) was released. In 2019, she won the KSP Poetry Prize. If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears is her second poetry collection.
