Bio

Nathalie Batraville is a black queer artist and scholar of Haitian descent. She holds a PhD from Yale University. She published in 2025 a book of collage poems in French, titled L’Amérique du Nord. Her ceramic art practice emphasizes relationality, rituals, and pleasure. Touching and shaping clay simultaneously mobilizes art, intimacy, environmental justice, and decolonial politics.

She is completing a manuscript under contract with Duke University Press, titled Disruptive Agency: Towards a Black Feminist Anarchism. As the curator of the @black_ceramicsts page on Instagram, she hopes to celebrate black ceramic artists and create more possibilities for connection. She is also an Associate Professor at Concordia University’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute.