Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who now lives in California. She has an MA in Writing from Swinburne University and currently works as a Coordinator at a Writing Centre in a California city college. Her work has appeared in Entropy, StylusLit, Westerly, and Australian Poetry Journal. Recently, her story “Crossing” made the finalists’ list for the Penelope Niven Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and her poem ‘First Blood’ placed second in the 2017 KSP Poetry Awards, judged by John Kinsella.