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Natalie Pascale Boisseau
Writer - Ecrivaine - Femme de Lettres
Natalie Pascale Boisseau
Natalie Pascale Boisseau is writing an autofiction novel The Knowing Room: A Story of Exiles and Desire, which centers the teenager Violette living in the suburb of Montreal who lost her mother at 13 years old. She is in conversation with the narrator of the present time, on how to being alive and safe, migrating from the shores of the St-Lawrence River to the Salish Sea. In 2023, 4Culture has granted an award for her literary project. She is currently a fellow with the Jack Straw Writers program 2026.
The second ongoing work is a collection of essays titled To Arrive Where My Mind Lives, a collection of reflections and literary journalism made while on road trips through North America. She has published Beginnings in the Jack Straw Anthology (2026), and her poem Prayer to the White Little Bed Frame in the collection Transformations published by Raven Chronicle Press (2026), the story The Chipped Little Pitcher by Crab Creek Review (August 2022); the essay Cherry Season published by Isele Magazine (June 2021), on aliveness and healing from life threatening illnesses and the trauma of surviving the suicides in her family; the story Time Capsule, in the anthology Unmuted: Stories of Courage and Resilience by GenPride in October 2020. She has also published the story Le Terrain Vague with Les Écrits des Forges. Raven Chronicle Magazine has published poems and stories, one selected in the 2023 anthology This Light Called Darkness. She has written book reviews for Raven Chronicle Press and articles on the creative process of the Cirque du Soleil. As a journalist and author, she was awarded the Best Specialized Articles in Quebec in 1990 on First Native social and legal issues, to help close the divide between first nations and the legal community. Her life work includes being a former copyright attorney, currently practicing as an acupuncturist north of Seattle, familiar with the embodiment of trauma, pain and healing, and saving a forest near her new home in Lake Forest Park, WA
Natalie Pascale is a bilingual writer, in French and English, who grew up in Montreal, in the province of Québec, and started school in Pascagoula, Mississippi; she currently lives near Seattle, Washington state. The landscapes of the St-Lawrence River and the Salish Sea are recurrent territories in her writing. Natalie Pascale facilitates the workshop “Writing from the Heart: The Writing Practice”, supporting generative writing with contemplative practices.
Thank you to 4Culture for the support and granting a 2023 awards.
Artist Statement
My work stems from being an explorer in the landscape of trauma, as it is experienced by women one generation after the other. I am interested in how healing takes place close to the wound and how migrations carry the burden of unresolved sufferings. I immerse myself in spaces inhabited through generations and trace the occupying voices that suppress, ignore or distort them. Writing is an act of being aware and alive, to fearlessly touch what has been exiled from my life, from our lives, and the winding journey one must take to be present, peeling back layers to reach the core, to experience a deep cultural communication in communal landscapes and human connections. When crossing through traumatic imprints, I approach them with curiosity, a sense of safety, and with joy, to discover that being whole has always been close at hand. It is present as a potentiality all along.
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