Natalie D-Napoleon’s work has appeared in Meanjin, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal and Writer’s Digest. She received the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize in 2018 and a KSP Poetry Award in 2019. Her debut collection, First Blood, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. Her poem ‘Write an island’ was published in Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments.