My chapbook The Sound a Car Door Makes won the ‘23 contest at Michigan Writers Cooperative Press.

The Sound a Car Door Makes is an irascible joy ride through late capitalist fallout. In finely tuned prose poems, one part whimsy, one part angst, one part rock and roll, Natalie Tomlin negotiates the culpability of our boundless mobility with speed, grace, and an engine’s low growl.

—Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, author of A Wake with Nine Shades and Her Red, a graphic poem

The book is available at Bookshop, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Click below to buy from your favorite store.

Selected creative writing

Wild Organic ApplesFarmer-ish, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and selected for Memoir Monday

Grasping at Shifting SandsBelt Magazine, selected as a top story of 2021

The Position We Were InMidwest Gothic, selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018

IntersticeSplit Rock Review, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net

An Untestable QuestionThe Hopper

This Is ItRiver Teeth (online)

Midwest Remembering and Knowing and Lee IacoccaEssay Daily

Lake Huron, 1989first prize, Westminster Art Festival

BanyaThread

Backyard” “Grubs” “Temperature BlanketCanary


Selected criticism

Cities at Dawn by Geoffrey Nutter

Hear Trains by Caroline Knox

Heart in a Jar by Kathleen McGookey

Nineteen Letters by Kathleen McGookey