The Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Natalie Diaz, Poet

The Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Natalie Diaz, Poet

Date and Time

Friday, November 6, 2015

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  • Friday, November 6, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.

Location

Hahn University Center, Forum C

5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110

Cost

Free

Details

The Department of English welcomes Native American poet, Natalie Diaz, to our Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series on Friday, November 6, 2015.  This reading will be held in the Hahn University Center, Forum C, with a book signing and dessert reception following.  Free and open to the public, all are welcome!

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. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her second book will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2016. She is a 2012 Lannan Literary Fellow and a 2012 Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. In 2104, she was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, as well as the Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Hodder Fellowship, both from Princeton University, a Civatella Ranieri Foundation Residency, and a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Rez MFA program and lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she directs the Fort Mojave Language Recovery Program, working with the last remaining speakers at Fort Mojave to teach and revitalize the Mojave language.

Dessert Reception and Book Signing to follow
Free and open to the public

We hope to see you there!