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Meryl Natchez [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Berkeley, CA
California US
Email: 
meryl.natchez@gmail.com
Bio: 

Meryl Natchez’ most recent book of poetry is Catwalk, June 2020, from Longship Press. Her translations include: Poems From the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Gumilev, and Tadeusz Borowski: Selected Poems. Her book of poetry, Jade Suit, appeared in 2001. Her work has appeared in "LA Review of Books," "Hudson Review," "Poetry Northwest," "ZYZZYVA," "American Journal of Poetry," "Literary Matters," “The Pinch Literary Review,” “The Comstock Review,” “Altanta Review,” “Lyric,” “Moth,” “Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Review,” and many others, as well as the Tupelo Press anthology Cooking with the Muse, Against Forgetting: Poetry of Witness edited by Carolyn Forché, and America We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resiliance . She is on the board of the Marin Poetry Center and blogs at www.merylnatchez.com [2].

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
Spanish
Favorite authors: 
Jericho Brown, Sharon Olds, Marie Howe, Louise Glück, Robert Hass, W. S. Merwin, Natalie Diaz, John Donne, Ross Gay, and so many others
Twitter/X: 
@merylnat
Raised in: 
NY
New York
Website: 
https://www.merylnatchez.com [3]
Prizes won: 

Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews for Catwalk; Finalist Poetry Northwest Joan Swift Memorial Prize, 2018; California Quarterly, First Place, January 2017; Comstock Review Award of Merit, 2016

Prefers to work with: 
Any

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