Natalie Diaz @ Latino Cultural Center
Who: Natalie Diaz
What: Transnational Impressions
When: November 15, 7:30 pm
Where: Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak, 75204
WordSpace is honored to partner with Latino Cultural Center to present Natalie Diaz.
NATALIE DIAZ
Diaz’s debut book of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was a 2012 Lannan Literary Selection,[9] a 2013 PEN/Open Book Award shortlist, and “portrays experiences rooted in Native American life with personal and mythic power. Diaz currently lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona where she used to work on language revitalization at Fort Mojave, her home reservation. She worked with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language.
Her work appeared has appeared in Narrative, Poetry magazine, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and Crab Orchard Review and Poetry Foundation. She teaches at Arizona State University.
Other awards include: Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry and Tobias Wolff Fiction Prize
Natalie Diaz grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the border of California, Arizona, and Nevada. She attended Old Dominion University where she played point guard on the women’s basketball team, reaching the NCAA Final Four as a freshman and the bracket of sixteen her other three years. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to Old Dominion University, and completed an MFA in poetry and fiction in 2006.
PBS Interview: http://www.pbs.org/video/2233488990/
