Traci Brimhall | |
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 Brimhall at the 2018 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | Little Falls, Minnesota, U.S. |
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| Genre | Poetry |
Traci Brimhall is an American poet and professor. She teaches creative writing at Kansas State University. [1] She is the poet laureate of Kansas. [2]
Brimhall was born in Little Falls, Minnesota in 1982. [3] She graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts, and completed a Master of Fine Arts at Sarah Lawrence College. [4] She received a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, where she was a King/Chávez/Parks Fellow. [5] [6]
Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012) and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). [7] [8] [9] Our Lady of the Ruins won the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by Carolyn Forché. [10] Rookery won the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and it was a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. [11] [12] Saudade, inspired by stories from her Brazilian-born mother, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. [13] Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod was published in 2020 and Love Prodigal in 2024. [14] [15]
Brimhall's work has been published in The New Yorker , [16] [17] Poetry, [18] New England Review , [19] Ploughshares , [20] Slate, [21] The Believer, [22] The Kenyon Review , [23] and The New Republic . [24] Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, [25] Verse Daily, [26] PBS NewsHour, [27] and The Best American Poetry 2013 and 2014. [28] [29] She has also worked with illustrator Eryn Cruft on poetry comics that have been published in Guernica and Nashville Review . [30] [31] The duo published The Wrong Side of Rapture in 2013. [32] Brimhall co-authored the chapbook Bright Power, Dark Peace with Brynn Saito (Diode Editions, 2013). [33]
Brimhall received a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry. [34] She was the 2012 Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi [35] and the 2008–2009 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. [36] She has also been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference, [37] The Writer's Center, [38] Vermont Studio Center, [39] DISQUIET International Literary Program, [40] and The Arctic Circle. [41] In 2022, she was named poet laureate of Kansas. [2]
