Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June 2012 she began her official duties in September. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.

Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on April16026, 1966, Confederate Memorial Day, to Eric Trethewey and Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, who were married illegally at the time of her birth, a year before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down antimiscegenation laws with Loving v. Virginia. Her birth certificate noted the race of her mother as colored, and the race of her father as Canadian.

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