Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall
Brimhall at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
BornLittle Falls, Minnesota, U.S.
Alma mater
GenrePoetry

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]

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

References

  1. ^ "About Traci Brimhall". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Governor Laura Kelly Announces New Kansas Poet Laureate". Kansas Department of Commerce. November 10, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  3. ^ Lehman, David (September 10, 2013). The Best American Poetry 2013. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781476708140.
  4. ^ "Traci Brimhall". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "Traci Brimhall Poetry Reading". Oberlin College and Conservatory. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  6. ^ "Traci Brimhall". Blackbird. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  7. ^ Popa, Maya Catherine (2014). "On Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  8. ^ Miller, Lindsay. "Traci Brimhall Book Review". MUZZLE MAGAZINE. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  9. ^ "Rookery". Southern Illinois University Press. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  10. ^ Brimhall, Traci (2011). "Somniloquy, and: Envoi". New England Review. 32 (1): 114–116. ISSN 2161-9131.
  11. ^ de la Flor, Neil (September 26, 2011). "Prize-winning poet Traci Brimhall to visit University of Wynwood". Knight Foundation. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  12. ^ "Lucky Lightning: An Interview with Traci Brimhall". Pleiades. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  13. ^ "Saudade by Traci Brimhall". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  14. ^ "How It's Made: Traci Brimhall's Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod". Frontier Poetry. May 11, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  15. ^ Winter, Roberta E. "a book review by Roberta E. Winter: Love Prodigal". new york journal of books. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  16. ^ Brimhall, Traci (August 10, 2020). ""Aubade as Fuel"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  17. ^ Brimhall, Traci (May 20, 2013). "Stolen, 1966". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  18. ^ Brimhall, Tracy (2014). "Better to Marry Than to Burn". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  19. ^ Brimhall, Traci. "Somniloquy". New England Review. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  20. ^ "Spring 2022". Ploughshares. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  21. ^ "Traci Brimhall". Slate Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  22. ^ Orr, Niela (October 1, 2020). "Annunciation in a Gas Station Bathroom". Believer Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  23. ^ "The Sunken Gospel". The Kenyon Review. 2010. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  24. ^ Brimhall, Traci (October 16, 2013). "The Last Time I Saw My Daughter's Eyes, They Were On the Back of a Moth's Wings". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  25. ^ Brimhall, Traci (March 25, 2023). "Admissions Essay". Poetry Daily. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  26. ^ Brimhall, Traci (2010). "Aubade with a Broken Neck". Verse Daily. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  27. ^ Weekly Poem: 'Fiat Lux' by Traci Brimhall. October 3, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2025 – via PBS NewsHour.
  28. ^ "The Best American Poetry 2013, Guest Edited by Denise Duhamel". The Best American Poetry Series. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  29. ^ "The Best American Poetry 2014, Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes". The Best American Poetry Series. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  30. ^ Cruft, Eryn; Brimhall, Traci (December 15, 2011). "How to Write a Love Poem". Guernica. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  31. ^ Brimhall, Traci; Cruft, Eryn (August 1, 2012). "The Wrong Side of Rapture". Nashville Review. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  32. ^ "Traci Brimhall". Diode Editions. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  33. ^ "BRIGHT POWER, DARK PEACE by Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito". Diode Editions. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  34. ^ Liberty, John (December 10, 2012). "Kalamazoo poet Traci Brimhall receives $25,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts". mlive. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  35. ^ "Traci Brimhall Selected as 2012 Summer Poet in Residence". Department of English. University of Mississippi. February 19, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  36. ^ "Current & Former Fellows". Creative Writing. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  37. ^ Grabowski, Kim (2012). "Talking to Traci Brimhall". The Smoking Poet. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  38. ^ "Grants & Awards". The Writer's Center. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  39. ^ Gellatly, Kylie (March 17, 2020). "Personal Mythology, Ever-Shifting Topography: A Conversation with Traci Brimhall". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  40. ^ "2011". Disquiet International. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  41. ^ "Participants". The Arctic Circle. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
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