Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz is the author of Postcolonial Love Poem and When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Diaz is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.

“If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert”

From Postcolonial Love Poem

March 3, 2020 By Natalie Diaz

“American Arithmetic”

A Poem From Natalie Diaz, Who Was Just Named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow

October 5, 2018 By Natalie Diaz

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