Natalie Ann Holborow is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award among others. Her writing residencies with the British Council, Literature Wales and Kultivera have seen her writing and performing poetry in Wales, Ireland, Sweden and India. Her third poetry collection Little Universe (Parthian) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Natalie lives in Swansea, is a proud patron of local charity The Leon Heart Fund and runs marathons to raise funds.