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Natasha Trethewey

Author of Native Guard

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Native Guard 114 copies, 2 reviews
Domestic Work 37 copies
Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems 33 copies, 2 reviews
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Best New Poets) 7 copies
Native Guard gift edition 4 copies
The Virginia Quaterly Review - A National Journal of Literature &… 1 copy

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Date of birth

1966

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Gender

female

Nationality

USA

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Education

University of Georgia (B.A.)

Hollins University (M.A.|English/creative writing)

University of Massachusetts (M.F.A.|poetry)

Occupations

Poet. Auburn University, Auburn, AL, assistant professor of English; Emory University, assistant professor of English/creative writing

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Organizations

Dark Room Collective

Awards and honors

Grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Grolier Poetry Prize, for "Storyville Diary," and Cave Canem Poetry Prize, for Domestic Work, all 1999; Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, 2001; Lillian Smith Award for poetry, 2001; Bunting fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund award; Margaret Walker Award for poetry; Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Memorial Award for poetry, Julia Peterkin Award, Converse College; Distinguished Young Alumna Award, University of Massachusetts; Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 2007, for Native Guard.

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Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966. She earned an M.A. in poetry from Hollins University and M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Massachusetts.

Her first collection of poetry, Domestic Work (2000), was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry.

Since then, she has published two more collections of poetry, including Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her work has appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Callaloo, Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, North American Review, and The Southern Review, among other magazines and anthologies.

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