Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey during book signing at the University of Michigan

Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) is an American poet who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection, Native Guard.^[1]

Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.^[2] 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 (1995).^[3] In May 2010, Hollins University awarded Trethewey with a Doctor of Letters honoris causa during the university's 168th Commencement Exercises. In December 2007, she received the same honor from Delta State University in her native Mississippi. She holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University.^[4]

Bibliography

• Domestic Work. Graywolf Press. 2000. ISBN 9781555973094.  (Poetry)
• Bellocq's Ophelia. Graywolf Press. 2002. ISBN 9781555973599. ^[3] (Poetry)
• Native Guard. Houghton Mifflin. 2006. ISBN 9780618872657.  (Poetry)
• Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. University of Georgia Press. 2010. ISBN 9780820333816.  (Poetry, essays, and letters)

Awards

• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry^[5]
• 2004 Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation for residency at the Bellagio Study Center
• 2003 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 2001, 2003,^[2] 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

References

1. ^ "Emory University professor wins Pulitzer for poetry". http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=90812. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "WEB EXTRA: Natasha Trethewey in brief". Sun Herald. 25 May 2007. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BX&s_site=sunherald&p_multi=BX&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=119611FED5929D10&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 7 April 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Memory's metaphors". The Boston Globe: p. A10. 7 May 2007. 
4. ^ "Natasha Trethewey's Faculty Page at Emory University". http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html. 
5. ^ "Poet Natasha Trethewey, Hymning the Native Guard". NPR. 16 July 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12003278. Retrieved 7 April 2011. 

External links

• Faculty bio at Emory
• "Pulitzer Prize Winner Trethewey Discusses Poetry Collection". PBS Online News Hour. April 25, 2007. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/trethewey_04-25.html. 
• Natasha Tretheway on Southern Spaces
• 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)

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