Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz (dem born am September 4, 1978) be Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, den educator. She dey de Gila River Indian Community insyd wey dem dey identify am as Akimel O'odham. She currently be Associate Professor for Arizona State University.

 Ein Early life 
Dem born Natalie Diaz insyd Needles, California, for September 4. 1978. She grow for Fort Mojave Indian Village wey dey Needles, California, wey border of California, Arizona, den Nevada top. She go Old Dominion University, wer she play point guard for de women's basketball team insyd, wey she reach de NCAA Final Four as freshman den de bracket of sixteen ein other three years. She get bachelor's degree. After say she play professional basketball insyd Europe and Asia, she return go Old Dominion University, wey she plete MFA insyd poetry den fiction, insyd 2006.

 Ein Career 
Ein work appear insyd Narrative, Poetry magazine, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, den Crab Orchard Review.

Diaz ein debut book of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, " dey portray experiences insyd Native American life plus personal den mythic power." Na ebe 2012 Lannan Literary Selection, wey dem shortlist for de 2013 PEN/Open Book Award insyd, wey na she be 2013 American Book Award winner. One important focus of de book be sam sisto wey dey struggle plus ein bro ein addiction plus crystal meth.

Insyd 2012, dem interview am about ein poetry den language rehabilitation work for de PBS NewsHour top.

Insyd 2018, dem name am as de Maxine den Jonathan Marshall Chair insyd Modern den Contemporary Poetry for Arizona State University.

Insyd 2019, na she be faculty for CantoMundo Retreat.

Insyd 2021, ein book Postcolonial Love Poem win de Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Na dem dey bell am "sam collection of tender, heart-wrenching den defiant poems wey explore what edey mean say you go love den say dem go love you for sam America beset insyd by conflict." Na de book sana be finalist give de 2020 National Book Award, sam finalist give de 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, sam finalist give de 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection, wey dem shortlist give de 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.

 Ein life matter 
Diaz currently dey stay Mohave Valley, Arizona, wer na she dey work for de language revitalization top for Fort Mojave, ein home reservation. She work plus de last Elder speakers of de Mojave language. She be member of de Gila Indian Community.

 Ein Poetry 


Insyd anthology

 Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day, eds. (2016). Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Scarlet Tanager Books.  ISBN 978-0976867654


 Ein Awards den honors 
+YearNominee / workAwardResult2007No More Cake HerePablo Neruda Prize in PoetryWon2007The HoofermanTobias Wolff Fiction PrizeWon2012Poetry FellowLannan Literary FellowshipWon2012Downhill TrioletsNarrative PrizeWon2012Poetry ScholarLouis Untermeyer Scholarship in PoetryWon2015Writing FellowPEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation FellowshipWon2018Poetry FellowMacArthur FellowshipWon2021Postcolonial Love PoemPulitzer Prize for PoetryWon

 References 
Category:Language activists
Category:Human
Category:Living people
Category:1978 births
Category:Native American women poets
Category:Native American sportswomen
Category:People wey komot Needles, California
Category:Basketball players wey komot California
Category:Poets wey komot California
Category:Native American basketball players
Category:21st-century Native American writers
Category:21st-century Native American women
Category:Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball players
Category:Native American women writers
Category:Native American poets
Category:MacArthur Fellows
Category:American women poets
Category:American women's basketball players
Category:American Book Award winners

 External links 

External videoslink=|alt=video icon|16x16px Natalie Diaz reads "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival, March 30, 2014link=|alt=video icon|16x16px Poet Natalie Diaz Reads From 'When My Brother Was an Aztec', PBS NewsHour, June 20, 2012


 Natalie Diaz, Blue Flower Arts
 Natalie Diaz poems, Academy of American Poets