When My Brother Was an Aztec

Career

Her work appeared in Narrative,[10] Poetry magazine,[11] Drunken Boat,[12] 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."[13] It was a 2012 Lannan Literary Selection,[14] was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award,[15] and was a 2013 American Book Award winner.[16] One important focus of the book is a sister struggling with her brother's addiction to crystal meth.[17]

In 2012, she was interviewed about her poetry and language rehabilitation work on the PBS News Hour.[18]

In 2018, she was named as the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.[19]

In 2019, she was faculty at the CantoMundo Retreat.[20]

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."[21] 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.[22]


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