Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon

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Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a poet and educator who was raised on a farm by her Croatian-immigrant parents. Her poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, Australian Book Review and APJ. She has won the Bruce Dawe and KSP Poetry Prizes; and has been shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. In 2024 she was awarded the Red Room Poetry and Mascara Emerging Critics Fellowships. Her second poetry book, If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears, was recently released by Life Before Man/Gazebo Books. In her creative work she explores visual poetry through erasures and cut-ups, along with free-verse and formal structures.