Congratulations to Georgia’s Own Natasha Trethewey!

Natasha Trethewey, a professor of English at Emory University, has been named the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2012-13.

Trethewey’s works of poetry include Domestic Work (2000), Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002), and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard (2006). Her 2010 memoir, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, was published by the UGA Press. Her poetry also appears in the Spring 2012 issue of The Georgia Review.

You can read more about her life and work in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Image from the New Georgia Encyclopedia