In Volume Five: Chapter Thirteen, we welcome Poet, Writer, and Author of the poetry collection, “Elegy For Opportunity”, Natalie Lim.

Natalie Lim (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, BC). She is the author of a full-length book of poetry, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) and a chapbook, arrhythmia (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022). Winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room Magazine’s 2020 Emerging Writer Award, her work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and elsewhere.

Contact Natalie:
Instagram: @natalielimwrites          Threads: @natalielimwrites
Website: natalielim.ca            Order Elegy For Opportunity

Recorded Spoken Word Performances Featured Include:

Timothy DuWhite – The Story of How He Happened
Instagram: @call.me.ugba
Threads: @saber.my.champagne

Denice Frohman – Accents
Instagram: @denicefrohman               Website: denicefrohman.com

Kenneth Something – Rape Poem
Instagram: @kennethpoetry
Instagram: @kennethsomething

Mike Rosen – When God Happens
Instagram: @heymikerosen

Javon Johnson – Black and Happy
Instagram: @javonism