Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey (born 1966) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.

Life
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 (1995). She holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University.

Recognition
Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection, Native Guard.

In May 2010, Hollins University awarded Trethewey 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.

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

Publications

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