Natalie Diaz grew up on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation on the border of California, Arizona and Nevada. She returned because she felt a calling to help preserve the Mojave language ...

Natalie Diaz’s poetry is raw, rhythmic ... As The Rumpus put it, she writes with a “dancer’s grace and a mechanic’s oil-stained hands.” Her images are potent and physical, and she is a formidable ...