Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She is the nineteenth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of four collections of poetry, Domestic Work (2000); Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); Native Guard (2006)—for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize—and, most recently, Thrall,...

Natasha Trethewey, 19th U S poet laureate, reads her poem "Elegy" from her new book, Thrall, at the Decatur Book Festival keynote address, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University Campus. Trethewey is also the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of...