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. Her latest work, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf, was released in 2010. Natasha serves as a producer for the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place, in which she has published three previous pieces, Congregation, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space.
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.
———. 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. "Congregation."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/congregation
———. "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
