Trethewey reading at the Library of Congress in 2013
Born
(1966-04-26) April 26, 1966 (age 58) Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation
Poet, professor
Education
University of Georgia (BA) Hollins University (MA) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA)
Genre
Poetry
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2007 Poet Laureate of Mississippi 2012-2016 United States Poet Laureate 2012-2014 Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities 2017
Spouse
Brett Gadsden
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who served as United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014.[1] She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard,[2] and is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.[3]
Trethewey is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. She previously served as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she taught from 2001 to 2017.[4]
Trethewey was elected in 2019 both to the American Academy of Arts and Letters[5] and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Academy of American Poets Chancellor David St. John said Trethewey “is one of our formal masters, a poet of exquisite delicacy and poise who is always unveiling the racial and historical inequities of our country and the ongoing personal expense of these injustices. Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal experience felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound.”[6] Trethewey was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[7]
^Bentley, Rosalind (6 June 2012). "Emory professor named U.S. poet laureate". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
^"Pulitzer Prize Winner Trethewey Discusses Poetry Collection". PBS NewsHour. 25 April 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
^"Mississippi has new poet laureate". Mississippi Arts Commission. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
^"Former U.S. Poet Laureate to Leave Emory for Northwestern". Emory Wheel. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
^Fedor, Ashley. "2019 Newly Elected Members". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
^Trethewey, Natasha (1 February 2001). "Natasha Trethewey - Poet | Academy of American Poets". Natasha Trethewey. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
^"The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022".
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