Natalie Diaz, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2012 Narrative Prize, is the author of the poetry collections When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem. A Mojave and Pima tribe member, she grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia for several years, she completed an MFA at Old Dominion University. Diaz lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, and directs a language revitalization program with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language.

Photograph © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.


2021 PULITZER
PRIZE WINNER

If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World

by Natalie Diaz

What if Eve was an Indian
& Adam was never kneaded
from the earth, Eve was Earth
& ribs were her idea all along?

What if Mary was an Indian
& when Gabriel visited her wigwam
she was away at a monthly WIC clinic
receiving eggs, boxed cheese
& peanut butter instead of Jesus
People on couch
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