Natalie Diaz

Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Associate Professor, English

Professor, Creative Writing

natalie.g.diaz@asu.edu

Ross-Blakley Hall 341 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
Mail code: 1401

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Diaz's second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem is forthecoming from Graywolf Press in 2020. She is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship, and Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

Education

M.F.A. Poetry and Fiction, Old Dominion University 2007

Publications

Poetry

Reviews

Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS, "A Native American Poet Excavates the Language of Occupation," New York Times Book Review
Solmaz Sharif’s LOOK: “A Poet Subverts the Defense Department’s Official Dictionary,” New York Times Book Review
Review, Major Jackson’s Roll Deep: “Roll Deep,” New York Times Book Review

Courses

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 594	Conference and Workshop

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
IED 498	Pro-Seminar

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 498	Pro-Seminar

2019 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 498	Pro-Seminar

2019 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 594	Conference and Workshop

2018 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 580	Practicum
ENG 665	Creative Methods
ENG 394	Special Topics

Honors / Awards

Fellowships and Honors

2019 Amanda Davis Returning Fellow, Breadloaf Writer's Conference
2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
2016 Rupert Residency Programm, Vilnus, Lithuania
2015-2016 Hodder Fellowship, Princeton University
2014 United States Artists Ford Fellowship
2014 PEN Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, Italy
2014 Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry
2014 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
2012,2014 Lannan Foundation Residency, Marfa, TX
2013 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, When My Brother Was an Aztec
2013 Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Artist Literary Fellowship – Poetry
2012 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship
2012 Bread Loaf Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry
2012 Breath of Life Archival Institute Fellowship

Awards and Prizes

Best American Essays 2017, Notable Essay for "The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones"
2015 Hugh J. Luke Award. Essay for “A Body of Athletics”
2014 Pushcart Prize for “Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera”
2013 PEN Open Book Award Finalist for When My Brother Was an Aztec
2013 Late Night Library Debut-Litzer Prize in Poetry for When My Brother Was an Aztec
2013 New American Poets Selection, Poetry Society of America
2012 Narrative Prize for Poetry for “Downhill Triolets”

Editorships

A Body of Athletics. Poetry Anthology. University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming)
Editor, Prairie Schooner Winter 2015 Issue: Sports Theme

Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History

Visiting Poet, New Writers MFA Program, University of Texas, Austin, TX (Fall 2017); Thesis Advisor, Michener Center, University of Texas, Austin (2018); Visiting Professor, Creative Writing MFA Program University of Texas, El Paso (Online) (Spring 2017); Lecturer, Creative Writing Program New York University, New York, NY (Fall 2016); Thesis Advisor Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (present); MFA Faculty Instructor Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM (2013-2017); Director and Mojave Language Instructor, Fort Mojave Language Recovery Program Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, Needles, CA, and Mohave Valley, AZ (2009-2016); Point Scholar Foundation Mentor in Literature (2014)

Service

Director, [archi]Text conversation and event series, (2017-present)
Board of Trustees, United States Artists Foundation, (2018-2020)
Co-Founder, Poetry Across Nations, (2017-present)
Co-Curator, Words for Water, (2017)

Expertise Areas

Creative Writing

Poetry