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Paisley Rekdal

Poet

About the artist:

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000 and Vintage 2002), two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000), and Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002), and a chapbook, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (Black Warrior Review 2003). Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, and American Library Association Award for Young Adult Nonfiction, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Quarterly West, among others. She is currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah.