NATALIE APPLETON is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Vernon, BC. She is a graduate of the University of Regina School of Journalism and the MA in Creative Writing (Narrative non-fiction) program at City University London, UK.

In her former life as a journalist, she worked at newspapers across the Prairies, including the Lethbridge Herald and the Medicine Hat News. Natalie has won the Room Magazine Creative Non-fiction Contest and Prairie Fire’s Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Contest.

Her stories have appeared in publications around the world, including The New York Times.

Natalie’s literary memoir, I Have Something to Tell You, is a coming-of-age story pitched as a mix between The Alchemist and Bridget Jones’ Diary, set partly in her hometown of Medicine Hat, and in Bangkok.

Her debut novel, I Want to Die in My Boots (Brindle & Glass), tells the story of the formidable Belle Jane, who led a gang of horse and cattle thieves in Saskatchewan in the 1920’s.

By day,  Natalie runs a boutique copywriting and PR firm specializing in supporting arts non-profits.

She is also an enthusiastic member of the Okanagan writing community, volunteering with the Valley Voices reading series and a pop-up book stall featuring the titles of local writers.