Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall
reading at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014
Nationality American
Alma mater Florida State University;
Sarah Lawrence College;
Western Michigan University
Genre Poetry
Website
www.tracibrimhall.com

Traci Brimhall is a poet and professor in the United States. She teaches creative writing at Kansas State University.[1]

Life

Brimhall was born in Little Falls, Minnesota in 1982.[2] She graduated from Florida State University with a BA, and completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College.[3] She received a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, where she was a King/Chávez/Parks Fellow.[4][5]

Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012)[6][7] and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Our Lady of the Ruins won the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by Carolyn Forché. 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. Her most recent book of poetry, Suadade[8],inspired by stories from her Brazilian-born mother, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017.

Brimhall's work has been published in The New Yorker,[9] Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Slate,[10] The Believer, Kenyon Review, and The New Republic. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Best of the Net, PBS Newshour, and Best American Poetry in 2013 and 2014. She has also worked with illustrator Eryn Cruft on poetry comics that have been published in Guernica, The Poetry Comics, and Nashville Review. The duo published The Wrong Side of Rapture through Ninth Letter in 2013. Brimhall co-authored the chapbook Bright Power, Dark Peace with Brynn Saito (Diode Editions, 2013).

Brimhall received a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry,[11] and was the 2012 Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi, and the 2008-2009 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She has also been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Writer’s Center of Bethesda, Vermont Studio Center, the Disquiet International Literary Program, and the Arctic Circle Residency.

Works

  • Rookery. SIU Press. 21 October 2010. ISBN 978-0-8093-8579-9.
  • Our Lady of the Ruins, Norton, 2012, ISBN 9780393086430
  • Suadade, Copper Canyon Press, 2017, ISBN 9781556595172

References

  1. ↑ "Traci Brimhall". Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Lehman, David. "The Best American Poetry 2013". Google Books. Simon & Schuster.
  3. ↑ "Traci Brimhall". Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. ↑ calendar Oberlin College
  5. ↑ "Traci Brimhall, Blackbird". Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  6. ↑ our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall review Kenyon Review
  7. ↑ Our Lady of the Ruins book review Muzzle
  8. ↑ https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={9C6E06A0-4533-4173-B978-CEAE5F3BBAE2}
  9. ↑ poem New Yorker
  10. ↑ Slate
  11. ↑ Kalamazoo poet Traci Brimhall receives $25,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts by John Liberty December 10, 2012 MLive
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