Natalie Halloway
“Not perfection. Recognition.”
Contemporary poetry about the feelings people struggle to name — grief, desire, exhaustion, survival, and the complicated work of becoming someone new.
Two collections from Kismet Chaos Publishing
Writing toward recognition
Natalie Halloway writes with an intimate, confessional voice that resists making difficult experiences prettier or simpler than they are — the anger that can live beside grief, the exhaustion hidden inside resilience, the identities we outgrow.
Her work is rooted in the belief that writing can create recognition between people who may never know one another. A feeling that seems impossible to explain can become suddenly familiar when someone else gives it language.
“I read it without putting it down. Natalie has an incredible gift.”
— Illinois reader, five-star review
All in on Empty
A raw poetry collection about grief, exhaustion, displacement, and rebuilding a life while you are still running on empty — written between casino lights, desert highways, storage units, and unfamiliar silence.
$16.99 · Paperback & ebook · 126 pages
What Remembers My Name
The Cosmos Never Forgot What You Were. Neither Should You.
A celestial poetry collection about identity, self-discovery, desire, anger, love, and the strange freedom of deciding who you will become after the turmoil has passed.
“The cosmos never forgot
what you were.
Neither should you.”
— from What Remembers My Name
Hear the poems out loud
Natalie is available for readings, signings, and author nights across the desert Southwest.
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