Bio + Headshot
Nathalie is a Filipina-Canadian woman with light-medium tan skin and shoulder-length black hair smiles gently resting her head on her curled fingers, leaning on a wooden desk, wearing a floral and fruit patterned dress against a warm olive background.
Nathalie De Los Santos (NAT-uh-lee dee lohs SAHN-tohs) (she/her/they/them) is a writer and creative. She created PilipinxPages, a platform that features Filipinx authors. She was a fellow of the 2025 Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, where she workshopped her YA fantasy novel Diyosa Mata under the mentorship of Aiden Thomas. Her short story “Bakunawa and the Seven Sisters” was shortlisted by Fractured Lit's Ghost, Fable and Fairy Tales Prize (judged by Dan Chaon). She won Anvil Press’s 3-Day Novel Contest in 2024, and her winning novel, Debt of the Heart, is forthcoming from Anvil Press in Winter 2027.
Nathalie is one of the key organizers of the Filipino-Canadian Book Festival. Her work has appeared in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing, The Globe and Mail, SAD Magazine, and more. She also hosts the Filipino Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Folklore podcast. Her current novel in progress, Bakunawa and the Seven Sisters, is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council.