Natasha Trethewey is the 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-2013). She is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and current state poet laureate of Mississippi.
Trethewey is the author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press), Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association, and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). Her collection of poetry, Thrall, was published in 2012.
Trethwewy is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry.
Trethewey's visit is co-sponsored by the Ohio State's Creative Writing Program and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
For more information, please visit http://odi.osu.edu/ and http://english.osu.edu/creative-writing/news-events/reading-series/visiting-writers.
