Natasha Trethewey, author of Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Bunting Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is Professor of English at Emory University and holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry.