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Natalie Díaz


Born
in Needles, California, The United States
September 04, 1978

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Poetry


Natalie Díaz 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 in 2012. Her second poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poems is published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is 2018 MacArthur 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. Díaz teaches at the Arizona State Un ...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 14,775 ratings · 2,182 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors
Postcolonial Love Poem
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When My Brother Was an Aztec
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New Poets of Native Nations
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The Hand Has Twenty-Seven B...
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Bodies Built for Game: The ...
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“I confuse instinct for desire—isn’t bite also touch?”
― Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
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“Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.”
― Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
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“We aren't here to eat, we are being eaten.
Come, pretty girl. Let us devour our lives.”
― Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec
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