Natalie Eleanor Patterson is a poet and editor from Atlanta, Georgia, with an MFA in poetry from Oregon State University. She is the author of the chapbook Plainhollow (dancing girl press, 2022) and the editor of Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021), has work featured in Sinister Wisdom, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. In 2026 she was a finalist for the Wren Award in Poetry. Natalie is Managing Editor of Jacar Press and a reader for Southeast Review, One, and the Julie Suk Award. She is currently pursuing her PhD in poetry at Florida State University, where she teaches undergraduate courses in the English Department and mentors fellow graduate students. 

You can find her on Instagram @imagine.nat.