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Poet and journalist, Natalie Eilbert is the award-winning author of two poetry collections, Swan Feast(2015) and Indictus (2018), winner of the 2016 Noemi Press Prize. In addition to her prize-winning chapbooks, And I Shall Again Be Virtuous(2014) and Conversations with the Stone Wife(2014), her works can be found in POETRY, Granta, The New Yorkerand elsewhere. Her works engage with systemic power imbalances, social and environmental justice, and climate change, and were awarded the 2021 George Bogin Memorial Prize. Founding editor of The Atlas Reviewshe is the recipient of a 2021 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born and raised in New York, Eilbert is currently based in Wisconsin where she contributes to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA TODAYas a local government and mental health reporter.
"Praise for Indictus""It would be easy to describe [Indictus] with empty adjectives such as fierce, powerful, or obsessive, but this book is more like an escape room that one might never want to leave.""--Victoria Chang, The Tupelo Quarterly""Indictus is a tour de force. Its anger is unafraid; it owes us nothing and refuses to apologize; it is a chronicle and an agent. Eilbert tempers her words for no one; she too has a truth, and has unmade your mouth so you might listen.""--The Chicago Review of Books, Sarah Huener""Natalie Eilbert's Indictus isn't a timely book. [...] It's ancient and current. Time is meaningless to it.""--The Adroit Journal, Jacqueline Krass""Natalie Eilbert's Indictus is the book of poems I want to be reading in these days. It is the counteragent, the cure, to a world that blames us for being ourselves. It is a book that quickly becomes a place to rest our weary loneliness, to give the unsaid a place to be said. [...] If you are lost, this book says, come home.""--Dorthea Lasky""In this world of broken bodies, Eilbert's tenacity, her sheer drive to get to the end of a thought, to get the words onto the page, conveys a demand: to be honest, to resist, to live.""--Daniel Borzutsky""I have removed all of the Homer from my bookshelves, and Dante, and Milton and Holden Caulfield, too. I trashed them all. In their place, Natalie Eilbert's epic Indictus, the only journey of tribulation and discovery that I regard as true heroism.""--Morgan ParkerPraise for Swan Feast ""Eilbert's array of referents can be dizzying, but her intoxicating language is sure to keep readers under her spell.""--Publishers Weekly""This is the voice of contemporary feminism, brazen, smart, unafraid, and desirous of nothing less than life.""--Julie Carr""Everything happens in [Swan Feast]. Let it happen to you.""--The Rumpus"
