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Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978)[3] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning[4] Mojave American poet,[5] language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham.[5] She is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.[6]

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Natalie Diaz
Born	(1978-09-04) September 4, 1978 (age 44) Needles, California, U.S.
Language	Mojave; English; Spanish [1]
Nationality	Gila River Indian Community[2]
Alma mater	Old Dominion University
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2021

Early life

Natalie Diaz was born in Needles, California on Sep. 4. 1978 .[7] She grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the border of California, Arizona, and Nevada. She attended Old Dominion University, where she played point guard on the women's basketball team, reaching the NCAA Final Four as a freshman and the bracket of sixteen her other three years. She earned a bachelor's degree.[8] After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to Old Dominion University, and completed an MFA in poetry and fiction,[9] in 2006.[10]

Career

Her work appeared in Narrative,[11] Poetry magazine,[2] Drunken Boat,[12] Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and Crab Orchard Review.

Diaz's debut book of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, “portrays experiences rooted in Native American life with personal and mythic power.”[13] It was a 2012 Lannan Literary Selection,[14] was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award,[15] and was a 2013 American Book Award winner.[16] One important focus of the book is a sister struggling with her brother's addiction to crystal meth.[17]

In 2012, she was interviewed about her poetry and language rehabilitation work on the PBS News Hour.[18]

In 2018, she was named as the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.[19]

In 2019, she was faculty at the CantoMundo Retreat.[20]

In 2021, her book Postcolonial Love Poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It was called "a collection of tender, heart-wrenching and defiant poems that explore what it means to love and be loved in an America beset by conflict."[21] The book was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award, a finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection, and shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.[22]

Personal life

Diaz currently lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona where she used to work on language revitalization at Fort Mojave, her home reservation. She worked with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language. She is enrolled as member of the Gila Indian Community.[7]

Poetry

• When My Brother Was an Aztec. Copper Canyon Press. 10 October 2013. ISBN 978-1-61932-033-8.
• Postcolonial Love Poem. Graywolf Press. 3 March 2020. ISBN 978-1-64445-014-7.

In anthology

• Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day, eds. (2016). Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Scarlet Tanager Books. ISBN 978-0976867654
• Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.

Awards and honors

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2007	No More Cake Here[23]	Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry	Won[24]
2007	The Hooferman[25]	Tobias Wolff Fiction Prize	Won[24]
2012	Poetry Fellow	Lannan Literary Fellowship	Won[26]
2012	Downhill Triolets	Narrative Prize	Won[27]
2012[28]	Poetry Scholar	Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry	Won[29]
2015	Writing Fellow	PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship	Won[30]
2018	Poetry Fellow	MacArthur Fellowship	Won[31][32]
2021	Postcolonial Love Poem	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	Won[22]

References

External links

External video
Natalie Diaz reads "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival, March 30, 2014
Poet Natalie Diaz Reads From 'When My Brother Was an Aztec', PBS NewsHour, June 20, 2012

• "One on One with Natalie Diaz". GBall. 2000.
• Natalie Diaz, Blue Flower Arts
• Natalie Diaz poems, Academy of American Poets

На других языках

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[es] Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz (Needles, 4 de septiembre de 1978) es una poeta y educadora estadounidense de origen mojave. Está registrada en la Comunidad Indígena del Río Gila.[1]

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[fr] Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz (née le 4 septembre 1978) est une poète Mojave, militante linguistique, ancienne basketteuse professionnelle et éducatrice, lauréate du prix Pulitzer. Elle est inscrite dans la communauté aborigène de Gila River (en) et s'identifie comme Pima. Elle est actuellement professeure agrégée à l'université d'État de l'Arizona[1].

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