Natalie Pascale Boisseau is a bilingual Québec writer from Montréal, living near Seattle. She is writing the autofiction novel Exiles and Desire (4Culture Awards 2023) and a collection of essays, To Arrive Where My Mind Lives, of reflections on road trips through North America. Her work appears in Isele Magazine and Crab Creek Review and is anthologized in This Light Called Darkness (Raven Chronicles Press) and Unmuted: Stories of Courage and Resilience (GenPride Seattle). As a journalist, she was awarded the Best Specialized Articles in Quebec in 1990 on First Nations social and legal issues, and wrote extensively on the creative process of Cirque du Soleil. When not writing, she practices acupuncture north of Seattle, familiar with the embodiment of trauma and healing, and has saved a forest near her home.

2026 Writers Program