Natalie Diaz, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2012 Narrative Prize, is the author of the poetry collections When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem. A Mojave and Pima tribe member, she grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia for several years, she completed an MFA at Old Dominion University. Diaz lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, and directs a language revitalization program with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language.
Photograph © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Gospel of Guy No-Horse, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015
- Downhill Triolets, a reading - video, in Winter 2014
- If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2013–2014
- Hand-Me-Down Halloween, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Downhill Triolets, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012
- Four Poems, poetry, in Spring 2012
- Three Poems, poetry, in Winter 2009
