Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who now lives in California. Currently, she works as a Coordinator at a city college Writing Center. She has had creative non-fiction and poetry published in Meanjin, Entropy, The Manifest-Station, Australian Poetry Journal, Westerly and Writer's Digest. She is a two-time finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award at the 2018 and 2017 International Literary Awards. In 2018 "Border Crossings" was a finalist in the Laurel Review Midwest Chapbook Competition. Poems from this collection have been published on Poetry WTF?!, Australian Poetry Journal, The Laurel Review and Poets Facing the Wall, an anthology. Her poem “First Blood: A Sestina” recently won the prestigious Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize through the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.