Natalie Diaz, a member of the Mojave and Pima Indian tribes, is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, among others, and was selected by Natasha Trethewey for Best New Poets. She has receive the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.