Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon is a poet, songwriter and educator with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University. It focused on erasure poetry and forgotten histories. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Writer's Digest Westerly, Entropy, Southerly and Griffith Review. She has won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize in 2018 and the KSP Poetry Prize in 2019. She has taught writing workshops in the US and Australia and helped run a volunteer poetry reading series, Voicebox. Her debut poetry collection, First Blood, was released in 2019. Her second poetry book, If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears, was released in 2023 by Life Before Man Books. You can learn more on her website www.nataliedamjanovichnapoleon.net/