Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale (Copper Canyon, 2019), Appropriate: A Provocation (Norton, 2021), and the forthcoming West: A Translation. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. The former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she is a distinguished professor.