We are pleased to announce that Visiting Writer Natalie Diaz will give a free public reading on Friday, February 19th at 5:30pm in 311 Denney. (Books will be available for purchase.) She will also lead a poetry workshop for English MFA students on February 20-21.
Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012). Her honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Diaz lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works with the last speakers of Mojave and directs a language revitalization program.
For more information, contact Tammy Carl at carl.34@osu.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Department of English and its MFA Program in Creative Writing.
