Natalie is of African/Irish ethnicity and was born in 1981 in Harare, Zimbabwe and lived a life immersed in creative activity, from music, singing training, creative writing, school newspaper production and editing and acting. She won an Honours Eistedford award for her poem 'The Thicket and The Musgrove' at the age of nine with various other poems/stories printed in local newspapers and magazines. Writing is her passion, finding inspiration by dark fantasy, storytelling and poetry, and she continues to develop ideas formed by simplicity and warmed to readiness with imagination.

Her inspirations at a young age came from Tolkien, Grimms Fairy Tales, Walter de la Mare and Edgar Allen Poe. Finding herself immersed in a world where bad/good combined seem to form a new reality has provided her with inspirations for some of her favourite pieces of work.

Natalie’s poetry collections Daydreams in Mermaid Grass and Theodore in November can be found on Amazon or ordered direct from her publisher www.jeremymillspublishing.co.uk.