Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection, Native Guard. Natasha serves as a producer for the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place, in which she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space.

Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake Adam York studied architecture and English at Auburn University. He received an M.F.A. and a PhD in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University. He is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he directs the creative writing program. York has published two books of poetry, Murder Ballads (2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). A third volume, Persons Unknown is forthcoming in October 2010. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Third Coast. He has also published three pieces, Anniversary, A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama, and In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library, as part of the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place.

Selected Published Works:
Trethewey, Natasha. Bellocq's Ophelia. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2002.

———. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010 (forthcoming).

———. Domestic Work. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2000.

———. Native Guard. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Links:
2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2007-Poetry

NPR Interview with Terry Gross
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99474984

PBS NewsHour Interview with Jeffrey Brown
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/trethewey_04-25.html

Poets.org entry for Natasha Trethewey
http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/442

Related Southern Spaces links:
Albergotti, Dan. "Shadows along the Waccamaw." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2008/shadows-along-waccamaw

Alexander, Elizabeth. "Natasha Trethewey interveiws Elizabeth Alexander."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/natasha-trethewey-interviews-elizabeth-alexander

Brown, Jericho. "Natasha Trethewey interviews Jericho Brown."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/naming-each-place

Hill, Sean. "The Morning with Many Tongues." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/morning-many-tongues

Jones, Rodney. "An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim". Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim

Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign

Trethewey, Natasha. "Elegy for the Native Guards."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards

———. "Theories of Time and Space."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space

York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama