Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, United States on April 26th, 1966 and is the Poet. At the age of 58, Natasha Trethewey biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was named United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013.
She received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing, where she has taught since 2001. Trethewey is one of our formal masters, a poet of extraordinary delicacy, and poise who is always revealing our country's rising personal cost of these injustices.
Any poetic synthesis of cultural and personal experience felt more natural, painful, or profound."
Education
Trethewey obtained her B.A. An M.A. degree in English from the University of Georgia. A M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University. In poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995, Amherst received a degree in poetry. Trethewey delivered the commencement address at Hollins University in May 2010 and was named an honorary doctorate. She had previously earned an honorary degree from Delta State University in her native Mississippi.
Awards
- 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Memorial Drive
- 2020 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Lifetime Achievement
- 2018 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature
- 2017 22nd Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities
- 2016 Academy of American Poets Fellowship
- 2015 PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award
- 2012 United States Poet Laureate
- 2012 Poet Laureate of Mississippi
- 2012 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
- 2011 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Inductee
- 2009 James Weldon Johnson Fellow in African American Studies at Yale's Beinecke Library.
- 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year by the Georgia Commission on Women
- 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 Book Award
- 2000 Bunting Fellowship for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- 1999 First Annual Cave Canem Foundation Poetry Prize for Domestic Work, selected by Rita Dove
- 1999 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts