Natalie Halloway
Poet. Transplant. Writing from the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Natalie Halloway is a poet based in Mesquite, Nevada, on the edge of the Mojave Desert. She moved 1,300 miles from everything familiar — and wrote her way through what came after.
Her debut collection, All In on Empty (Kismet Chaos Publishing, 2026), was written between casino lights, desert highways, storage units, fractured relationships, and unfamiliar silence. These aren’t polished reflections written safely from the other side; they are poems made in the middle of the storm — on sleepless nights, after long shifts, under red desert sunsets.
Her work explores reinvention, grief, anxiety, casino life, and the brutal quiet of starting over, for readers of Amanda Lovelace, Andrea Gibson, and the confessional tradition of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.
She shares new poems and readings on Instagram at @natalie.halloway.poetry, and is available for readings, signings, and local author events.