Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Natasha Trethewey Reading

The MFA program at Ashland University presents the summer residency's summer reading series. Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Natasha Trethewey, gives her reading on Monday, July 26 at 7 p.m. in Ronk Lecture Hall, Schar College of Education.  This event is free and open to the public.

Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is author of Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002) which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, and The Best American Poetry 2000 and 2003. Currently, she is Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University.

For more information about the MFA program and the summer residency reading series, visit http://www.ashland.edu/graduate/mfa