NATASHA TRETHEWEY
Poet and Memoirist,
Professor of Creative Writing, Emory University

Beyond Katrina:
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
University of Georgia Press, July 2010

Natasha Trethewey is author of Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000), and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), which was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She has been the recipient of various honors including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Grolier, Cave Canem, and Pushcart poetry prizes. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2003. An associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University, she is currently at work on a novel.