Author: Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon (D-Napoleon) is an award-winning poet, teacher and non-fiction writer.

She spent the last decade in the United States where she gave birth to her son and then worked as a Coordinator at a City College Writing Centre. 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. Currently, Natalie is teaching writing and ESL while completing a PhD on erasure poetry and historic amnesia. If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears is her second poetry collection.

She lives in Walyalup/Fremantle with her husband, son and rescue cat, Sylvia.