Foundational Courses Lecture: Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and finalist for the National Book Award, Forward Prize in Poetry, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, won an American Book Award. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellow, a Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellow, and a former Princeton University Hodder Fellow. Diazis Founding Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. In Spring 2025, she is the Rosencranz Writer-in-Residence at Yale.