Natalie D.C.
artist & writer
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Natalie D.C. (she/her) is a 21-year-old artist and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her writing grapples with her erratic mental health and queer half-Moroccan identity. When she isn’t busy working towards her BA in Public & Professional Writing, you can usually find her re-reading her favorite book over and over, baking with her little sister or filling her walls with anything and everything that makes her smile.
blue pearl takes its reader on a tense summer vacation in a tiled bougainvillea-shrouded palace located in a sleepy, seaside Moroccan town. Here, the author nonlinearly explores her fractured cultural identity in poems such as ‘halved,’ her entangled familial relationships in confessionals such as ‘bad again’ and ‘two names,’ and her centipede-infested brain in thirty-minute word-vomits such as ‘focus’ and ‘hymn.’
Beware the half-dead voices, the muffled sound of Halsey’s “1121” and the various creepy-crawlies perpetually lurking in the dark. Rather, look towards the light of the author’s unbridled love for the only place she can truly call home.
forthcoming
‘la perle bleue’ / orangepeel mag / issue 8: the future
how a childhood burns / Forbes & Fifth / Volume 24
‘commuter woes’ / CCAC Phoenix Literary Arts Journal / 2023-2024 issue
‘city of mine’ / underscore_magazine / Issue 3
drowning or flying / Moss Puppy Magazine / Issue 6
sunset / Polemical Zine / Issue 19: BLUE
‘fear’ / Aventurer’s Writing Guild Anthology
poems
’secrets’ / Drifter Zine / Where is Home: A Zine for Palestine
’taste blood,’ ‘festival of lights’ / Loud & Queer Zine / Queers for Palestine
‘universal paradox’ / Lurch Zine / Issue 02: Rabbit Hole
‘ghost story’ / Querencia Press LLC
‘eavesdrop’ / Cherry Bomb Literary Magazine / Fall 2023: Speakeasy
‘forbidden fruit’ (reprint) / Perfumed Pages Magazine / Issue 4
‘barbie girl (what was i made for?)’ / Coin-Operated Press / Barbie Zine
‘barbenheimer’ / And Gallons / Issue 2
‘loss of a childhood (plastic grief)’ / Ghost Girls Zine / Issue 3: Grief
‘only an illusion’ / Beyond the Veil Press / Pride Anthology
‘if i told you, you’d go mad,’ ‘forbidden fruit’ / Yafeh Zine / Volume 1: Beginnings
poems (cont.)
‘motel’ / fifth wheel press / dreamland anthology
‘dame’s rocket’ / ALOCASIA / Autumn Equinox Issue 6
‘starry palmful’ / Moonbow Magazine / Issue 1
‘garden’ / Daylight Zine / Summer 2023 Issue
5 poems / the sunshine lounge podcast
‘best friend’ / The Luna Collective / Mon Amie Zine
‘stars’ / Vision Fever / The Universe Zine
‘the horror!’ / Blossoms Journal / Issue 1: Nostalgia
‘dandelion child,’ ‘birds of a feather’ / The Wellness Zine / Issue 1
‘a firestorm’s dissociation’ / CCAC Phoenix Literary Arts Journal / 2022-2023 issue
‘Country of Mine’ / The Arlington Literary Journal / Issue 175
‘golden frankenstein girl’ / Bitter Pill Press / Bittersweet Zine
‘february 15, 2020’ / Art, Strike!
‘wicker back’ / The Globe Review / Issue 1
‘hopeless fairy dream girl’ / Messy Misfits Club / Issue 4: DREAMSCAPE
‘Mediterranean Diet’ / Porridge Magazine
‘who put bella in the wych elm tree?’ (reprint) / Dire Need Zine / Issue 3
‘who put bella in the wych elm tree?’ / Dipity Literary Magazine
‘bougainvillea’ / The Echo / Volume XI
prose
‘Transformed’ / moth eaten mag / Issue 1
‘dream life’ / Bottled Dreams Literary Magazine / Issue 1: Pulled from a Dream
‘gecko girl gone cold’ / The Periwinkle Pelican
‘squirrel sorority (purgatory)’ / Rejected Magazine
‘dreams - excerpt of a short story’ / Dreams Zine
‘The Top 10 Short Films By Female And Non-Binary Directors,’ ‘'Petit Mal' Review: A Melancholic Tale of Sapphic Polyamory,' ‘Ranking Céline Sciamma's Films,’ ‘6 Father-Daughter Films to Watch If You Have Daddy Issues,’ ‘All 10 Wes Anderson Films Ranked’; ‘Triangle of Sadness vs. The Menu: Which is the Superior Eat The Rich Film?’ / Cinema Vixens
‘I’m No Girl, I’m...’ / Pile Press / Issue 5
‘Blink’ / RMU’S Rune / 2022 Issue
‘Stop,’ ‘Bloody Mary’ / Ralph Munn Creative Writing Anthology / 2019, 2020
art
couscous with satan (tagine from hell) / Qafiyah Review / Issue 02: Sumac
moth mailed with love / ambrosia zine / issue 2: animal
tree of life (chai) / Yafeh Zine / Volume 1: Beginnings
too close to the sun / the minison zine / Mythological Minison: Volume III
safe as life / ephemera fanzine
bending over backwards, wish you didn’t love me, butterflies / Violet Rage Zine / Volume 1
the stars say goodnight / FLOWER SHOP ZINE / Issue 1
kinds of leaving / Dire Need Zine / Issue 3
Self-Portait (reprint) / Homosocial Girl Power Narrative Zine
Self-Portait / RMU’S Rune / 2022 Issue
Centipedes / Footprints on Jupiter / Issue 1
Save Our Seas, Is This Freedom? / Celebrating Art / Fall 2018, Summer 2019
awards
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (2019, 2020, 2021)
- Silver Medal / Science Fiction & Fantasy (“Stop”) / 2020
- Gold Key (2) / 2020, 2021
- Silver Key (6) / 2021
- Honorable Mention (4) / 2019, 2020, 2021
experience
Agnès Films Digital Film Publication Social Media Manager & Content Developer
October 2023 - Present
CCAC Phoenix Literary Arts Journal Poetry Editor
August 2022 - May 2023
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