Natalie Wang is a Singaporean poet who writes about cats, ghosts, and womanhood, and maintains that they are all the same thing.
Her debut collection of poetry “The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Machine” is a book on womanhood and metamorphosis, and a tribute to the fox spirits and vengeful ghost women she read about as a child. You can purchase its rerisen form, “The Woman Who Turned Into A Vending Machine (Extended Edition)” here. She is a co-editor for Free To Play: A Video Game Anthology” (Difference Engine), an anthology of comics, short stories, poems, essays, and multimedia projects about video games.
Her second poetry collection, “Possession” (AFTERIMAGE, 2026) is about the HDB Gothic - community cats vanishing, josspaper burning in communal spaces, blood coming down from ceilings, ghosts lingering in flats.
“here there is only syrup slow sunlight
pouring itself from the canopy’s gaps
creepers slanting themselves to catch
the little that falls...””