Summer Tales with Natalie Díaz

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Natalie Díaz, award-winning Native American and Latinx poet, will speak at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The event will be held virtually through Zoom on July 14 at 4:30 pm. Attendees will be given the chance to hear Díaz speak about her poetry during the event, which is co-sponsored by Rutgers-New Brunswick Office of Summer & Winter Sessions and the Rutgers-New Brunswick Libraries. An audience Q&A session will follow the author talk.

A Mojave born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe, Díaz is known for addressing issues facing Native communities in her poetry, such as racism, poverty, addiction, and especially the conservation of languages and cultures. Her first collection of poems, When My Brother Was an Aztec, won an American Book Award. Her second collection Postcolonial Love Poem won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Díaz is a 2018 MacArthur “Genius” Foundation Fellow, a 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 US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz currently teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

To register for the event, please visit summer.rutgers.edu/natdiaz.