Natalie Kimbell was born in Norton, Virginia, spent her early elementary school years in Worcester, Massachusetts, and then moved to Dunlap, Tennessee to find her home. She is a 1978 graduate of Sequatchie County High School and a 1982 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She serves as an English and theater arts and creative writing instructor at her high school alma mater. This year, 2025, will mark her forty-first and last full-time year as an educator.Although writing most of her life, she only began releasing her writing in 2017. Since then, her work has placed in several contests, anthologies and has appeared in publications such as the Appalachian Writers Anthology, Women Speak, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Artemis, Shift as well as in The Mildred Haun Review and Tennessee Voices Anthology. Though primarily a poet, Kimbell has also published creative nonfiction and ten-minute monologues.