ABOUT
Natalie Louise Tombasco is a poet from Staten Island, NY. She holds an MFA from Butler University and a doctoral degree in creative writing and gender studies from Florida State University.
Currently, she is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at the University of Tampa where she teaches first-year writing and serves as the Nonfiction Editor of Tampa Review.
Recent work can be found in Best New Poets 2021, Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and The Cincinnati Review, among others.
Tombasco is the winner of the Bertram and Ruth Davis Award for Outstanding Career as a Graduate Student and Copper Nickel’s Editors’ Prize. She was named a finalist for the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize, Levis Prize, Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, and the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.
BOOKS
Her debut collection, Milk for Gall, was selected as the winner of the 2023 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and was published in Fall 2024 by SIR Press. The collection was a finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award and the 2025 Midwest Book Award.
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