Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry — Domestic Work, awarded the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Rita Dove (Graywolf, 2000); Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002); and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). She 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 The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2003. She is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.

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