![]() Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. Rekdal is the author of five books of poetry, two nonfiction titles, and one hybrid book, Intimate: A Family Portrait. She is not a nonfiction writer who dabbles in poetry, nor a poet with a mere penchant for nonfiction. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Paisley Rekdal, the Rainier Writing Workshop’s 2018 Judith Kitchen Visiting Writer, knows her way around form and genre. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, was published by W.W. ![]() A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. ![]() ![]() Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos Six Girls Without Pants The Invention of the Kaleidoscope Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. ![]()
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