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Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arts.state.ms.us/news/PoetLaureatetrethewey.php )〕 She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program. ==Family== Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on April 26, 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 anti-miscegenation laws with ''Loving v. Virginia''. Her birth certificate noted the race of her mother as "colored", and the race of her father as “Canadian”.〔 Trethewey's mother, a social worker, was part of the inspiration for ''Native Guard'', which is dedicated to her memory. Trethewey's parents divorced when she was young and Turnbough was murdered in 1985 by her second husband, whom she had recently divorced, when Trethewey was 19 years old. Recalling her reaction to her mother's death, she said, "that was the moment when I both felt that I would become a poet and then immediately afterward felt that I would not. I turned to poetry to make sense of what had happened". Natasha Trethewey's father was also a poet; he was a professor of English at Hollins University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Natasha Trethewey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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