Thursday, March 27, 8:00 p.m., Talmadge Recital Hall, reception to follow in Green Drawing Room, Main.

Natasha Trethewey, a graduate of Hollins' Master of Arts program in creative writing, received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent collection of poetry, Native Guard. A native of Gulfport, Mississippi, Trethewey's first poetry collection, Domestic Work, won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry.

Her second collection, Bellocq's Ophelia, received the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, was a finalist for both the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin and Lenore Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American Library Association. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2003 and 2000, and in journals such as Agni, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Southern Review, among others.

Trethewey is Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta. Support for Natasha Trethewey's reading is provided by the Jackson Poetry Endowment.