Natalie Appleton is an award-winning Canadian writer living in the Okanagan. 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. In 2017, Natalie won Prairie Fire’s Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Contest. Her stories have appeared in publications in Canada, Thailand, the UK and the US, including The New York Times.

Natalie’s literary travel memoir, I Have Something to Tell You, is a witty, lyrical story of starting over set in Alberta and Thailand. Journalist-academic Minelle Mahtani called it, "A grittier, more authentic 'Eat, Pray, Love.'"

Natalie owns the copywriting and PR firm Read Head Studio Inc., and she is also the founder of Read Local Okanagan, a pop-up book stall that helps readers discover works by writers from across the valley.