Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a writer and singer-songwriter from Walyalup/Fremantle. After a decade in the US, where she became a mother in the wake of the first Trump presidency, she released her second poetry collection If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears (Life Before Man Books). Her work appears in Meanjin, Cordite, Australian Book Review, and alongside the US poet laureate Ada Limón in Dear Human. She’s won the Bruce Dawe and KSP Prizes, and was shortlisted for the Peter Porter Prize. Recently she completed a doctorate on erasure poetry and received a DLGSC grant for her bio-poetry project on Croatian women.