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Natalie Diaz was born on 4 September, 1978 in Needles, California, U.S., is an American poet (born 1978). Discover Natalie Diaz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?
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Needles, California, U.S. |
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United States
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Natalie Diaz Height, Weight & Measurements
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Natalie Diaz Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Natalie Diaz worth at the age of 45 years old? Natalie Diaz’s income source is mostly from being a successful poet. She is from United States. We have estimated Natalie Diaz's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator.
She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham.
She is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
Natalie Diaz was born in Needles, California, on September 4.
1978. She grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the border of California, Arizona, and Nevada.
She attended Old Dominion University, where she played point guard on the women's basketball team, reaching the NCAA Final Four as a freshman and the bracket of sixteen her other three years.
She earned a bachelor's degree.
After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to Old Dominion University, and completed an MFA in poetry and fiction, in 2006.
Her work appeared in Narrative, Poetry magazine, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and Crab Orchard Review.
Diaz's debut book of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, "portrays experiences rooted in Native American life with personal and mythic power."
It was a 2012 Lannan Literary Selection, was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award, and was a 2013 American Book Award winner.
One important focus of the book is a sister struggling with her brother's addiction to crystal meth.
In 2012, she was interviewed about her poetry and language rehabilitation work on the PBS News Hour.
In 2018, she was named as the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.
In 2019, she was faculty at the CantoMundo Retreat.
In 2021, her book Postcolonial Love Poem won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
It was called "a collection of tender, heart-wrenching and defiant poems that explore what it means to love and be loved in an America beset by conflict."
The book was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award, a finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection, and shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Diaz currently lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she used to work on language revitalization at Fort Mojave, her home reservation.
She worked with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language.
She is enrolled as member of the Gila Indian Community.
