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
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Selected creative writing
“Wild Organic Apples” Farmer-ish, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and selected for Memoir Monday
“Grasping at Shifting Sands” Belt Magazine, selected as a top story of 2021
“The Position We Were In” Midwest Gothic, selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018
“Interstice” Split Rock Review, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net
“An Untestable Question” The Hopper
“This Is It” River Teeth (online)
“Midwest Remembering and Knowing and Lee Iacocca” Essay Daily
“Lake Huron, 1989” first prize, Westminster Art Festival
“Banya” Thread
“Backyard” “Grubs” “Temperature Blanket” Canary
Selected criticism
Cities at Dawn by Geoffrey Nutter
Heart in a Jar by Kathleen McGookey
Nineteen Letters by Kathleen McGookey