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NATASHA
TRETHEWEY
NATIVE GUARD THRALL MEMORIAL DRIVE MOMUMENT BEYOND KATERINA DOMESTIC WORK BELLOCQ'S OPHELIA
Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey
served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014) and
Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi
(2012-2016). She is the author of The New
York Times bestseller Memorial Drive: A
Daughter’s Memoir (2020), a book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010) and five collections of poetry: Monument: Poems New
& Selected (2018), which was longlisted
for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall
(2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s
Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000),
which 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. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets,
the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale,
and the Bunting Fellowship Program of
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
at Harvard. In 2017 she received the Heinz
Award for Arts and Humanities. A member
of both the American Academy of Arts and
Letters and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, she was elected to the Board
of Chancellors of the Academy of American
Poets in 2019. At Northwestern University
she is Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and
Sciences. ☐
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