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 the A.B. 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 Phyllis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University.

Bibliography

Memoirs

• Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press, 2010)

Collections

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

Anthologies

• H.L. Hix, ed. (2008). New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States. Irish Pages. ISBN 9780954425791.

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}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Trethewey. "Geography" Southern Spaces 11 January 2011. http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/geography ISSN:1551-2754
• Trethewey. "Congregation" Southern Spaces 9 September 2010. http://southernspaces.org/2010/congregation ISSN:1551-2754
• Trethewey. Jake Adam York interviews Trethewey, Southern Spaces 25 June 2010. http://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-trethewey
• Trethewey. "Theories of Time and Space" Southern Spaces June 2005. http://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space ISSN:1551-2754
• Trethewey. "Elegy for the Native Guards" Southern Spaces June 2005. http://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards ISSN:1551-2754
• 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)