Traci Brimhall

Known for her frequent marriage of the ordinary with the surreal, Traci Brimhall is the author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (2020); Saudade (2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (2010), selected by Michelle Boisseau for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the Foreword Book of the Year Award. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize, and she has been honored as a Laureate Fellow for the Academy of American Poets, an Artist in the Parks for the National Parks Service, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in Poetry. She holds degrees from Florida State University (BA), Sarah Lawrence College (MFA), and Western Michigan University (PhD). She is currently a professor of English at Kansas State University and the Poet Laureate of Kansas.