Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey (born 1966) is an American poet, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard.

Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in poetry from Hollins University and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. In a 2007 New York Times interview, Trethewey states that her book Native Guard "represents the idea that I am a native guardian to the memory of my mother’s life"

Bibliography

• Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
• Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf Press, 2002)
• Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000)

Awards

• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• 2004 Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation for residency at the Bellagio Study Center
• 2003 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2001, 2003, 2007 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prizes
• 2001, 2007 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry
• 2000 Bunting Fellowship for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
• 1999 First Annual Cave Canem Poetry Prize for Domestic Work, selected by Rita Dove
• 1999 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

External links

• Audio recording of Trethewey reading from her work at 2010 Key West Literary Seminar
• "Pulitzer Prize Winner Trethewey Discusses Poetry Collection". PBS Online News Hour. April 25, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Natasha Trethewey. "Theories of Time and Space" Southern Spaces June 2005. ISSN:1551-2754
• Natasha Trethewey. "Elegy for the Native Guards" Southern Spaces June 2005. ISSN:1551-2754
• Natasha Trethewey reading from The Native Guard in February 2006: Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 5, No. 1 (Spring 2006)