Natalie Peeterse is the co-author of the graphic novel Thunderous, which won a High Plains Book Award. Her poetry chapbook Black Birds : Blue Horse, An Elegy won the Gold Line Press Poetry Prize. A second poetry chapbook, Dreadful : Luminosity, Letters, was published by Educe Press. She was included in I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (Lost Horse Press) and several other anthologies. She has edited several anthologies and chapbooks for Open Country Press. She has an MFA from the University of Montana. She has been a fellow with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a participant at the Community of Writers, an artist in residence at the Caldera Institute, a participant in the US Poets in Mexico in Merida, Yucatan and most recently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington’s Whiteley Center at the Friday Harbor Laboratories. She is a recipient of the Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award. She lives in Helena, Montana.