Natalie Crown has been writing fantastical tales since floppy discs were still a thing and she still owns one with Nat’s Story scrawled over it in purple gel pen. Growing up in the English countryside meant that she had a lot of free time to spend devouring books, playing video games, and scribbling her way through countless notebooks. Now living in the south of Italy, Natalie spends her mornings drinking coffee and writing tales of magic and monsters, before teaching energetic Italian children English in the afternoons. Having lived with a chronic illness her whole life, and being clinically blind in one eye, she’s excited to fill said tales with disabled protagonists that are more than their afflictions.