Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a writer of Uruguayan origins who lives on Dharug Country. Natalia’s a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and her poems and stories have been shortlisted for the 2015 Lane Cove Literary Award and longlisted for the 2021 Newcastle Poetry Prize, the 2021 SBS Voices Emerging Writers’ Competition and the 2022 Palette Emerging Poet Prize. Natalia’s currently working on her debut novel, Hailstones Fell Without Rain (2025, UQP).

Publications

Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry 

Sweatshop Women: Volume One