My chapbook The Sound a Car Door Makes won the ‘23 contest at Michigan Writers Cooperative Press and is forthcoming in June.

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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. Never do we forget we’re traveling through the dark at unsafe speeds. Strapped in with toddlers and absentee fathers, Mr. Iacoca and Joan for Arc, we hurl “past twenty-four-hour diners holding on like dried-out barnacles”, serenaded by Led Zeppelin and smooth jazz, our ears ringing with car door slams, Collision Center surveys, and the squawk of bodies scooting across vinyl in an endless bounty of seemingly “improvised song”.

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