Traci Brimhall
American poet
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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]
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 |
Early life and education
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]
Career
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]
Works
- Rookery. SIU Press. October 21, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8093-8579-9.
- Our Lady of the Ruins, Norton, 2012, ISBN 978-0-393-08643-0
- Saudade, Copper Canyon Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-55659-517-2
- Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Copper Canyon Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-55659-580-6
- Love Prodigal, Copper Canyon Press, 2024, ISBN 978-1-55659-702-2
