Nathalie is a Filipina-Canadian woman with light-medium tan skin and chin-length black hair smiles gently over her shoulder, wearing a forest-green dress and a black tote that reads “there is tsismis in this bag.” She cradles a paperback against a vibrant, book-spine–themed mural.
Nathalie De Los Santos (NAT-uh-lee dee lohs SAHN-tohs) (she/they) is a writer and creative. She is one of the festival organizers of the Filipino-Canadian Book Festival. She created PilipinxPages, a bookstagram featuring Filipinx authors.
She has appeared at: the Vancouver Writers Fest 2024, PechaKucha, CBC, LiterAsian (2020), TFC, OMNI TV and others. She studied at the SFU Writers Studio, Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices.
Her publications are in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing, Globe and Mail, Emerge: The Writers Studio Anthology, SAD Magazine, Canadian Literature, ROOTed Rhythms, the National Women’s History Museum, Cold Tea Collective, Sampaguita Press, Ricepaper Magazine, POV Publications, and more. She hosts the Filipino Fairy Tales, Mythology and Folklore podcast.