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The Moore Lecture Series and the English Department are proud to present a reading and conversation by poet Natalie Diaz.

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. She is the author of two poetry collections, Post-Colonial Love Poem (Graywolf, 2020), winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press 2012). She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship, a USA fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, a New School Fellowship, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She has also been the Rosenkranz Visiting Writer at Yale. Her work has been widely translated, including into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Polish and Slovenian.

Diaz earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. She is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University, where she directs ASU’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.