The Poetry Project

Natalie Eilbert

Natalie Eilbert wears a black tank top in front of a white slatted wall
© Mark Koranda

Natalie Eilbert is the author of Indictus, winner of Noemi Press's 2016 Poetry Prize, as well as the poetry collection, Swan Feast (Bloof Books, 2015). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from POETRY, Narrative, The New Yorker, Granta, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 NEA grant recipient and a former Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow. She lives in Chicago, where she is attending the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a focus on climate change and environmental justice.