Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is a native of Gulfport, Mississippi, and the author of three collections of poetry; the most recent, Native Guard, was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. Her other awards include the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair and professor of poetry at Emory University.

Natasha Trethewey’s website is at creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html.

Published in VQR

• Witness, Fall 2009
• Prodigal II, Fall 2009
• Exegesis, Fall 2009
• Believer, Fall 2009
• Tower, Fall 2009
• Congregation, Fall 2009
• Benediction, Fall 2009
• Prodigal I, Fall 2009
• Kin, Fall 2009
• Watcher, Fall 2009
• The Gulf: A Meditation on the Mississippi Coast after Katrina, Summer 2008
• Pilgrimage, Summer 2005
• Scenes From a Documentary History of Mississippi, Summer 2005
• On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South, Spring 2005
• Incident, Spring 2004