Natalie Rice
Natalie Rice is the author of the poetry collection SCORCH (2023) and NIGHTJAR (2025), both published by Gaspereau Press.Her poems have appeared in journals such as Terrain.org, The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere.She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives on the south shore of Nova Scotia.
The poems in Nightjar form a triptych vision of the way humans both experience and alter the natural world as we pass through it.— from the publisherIn Scorch, Natalie Rice situates our sense of individual disconnection and grief within a larger ecology of loss, where nature is an active force and change is a continuous, complex cycle encompassing both the wildfire and whatever beauty may still rise out of the scorched ground.— from the publisherLyrically taut.— Rob McLennan[Poems of] beauty and destruction.— Emily CannPoems tethered to an aftermath of collapse.— Jami Macarty