Natalie Lydick

Natalie oversees the production of Light Bringer Project’s free and public events, which include LitFest in the Dena, the Pasadena Chalk Festival, and the Pasadena Doo Dah Parade. She also manages other special projects under development. Natalie is a graduate student in English at Cal Poly Pomona with a focus in Rhetoric & Composition and a former slush reader for Uncharted Magazine.

She is a writer of speculative short fiction and poetry, saxophone player, and zine maker. Her writing has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Third Estate Art, and Worlds of Possibility. In 2024, she had the honor of receiving the Ted Pugh Poetry Award.