Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall is a poet and professor in the United States. She teaches creative writing at Kansas State University. 2Life Brimhall was born in Little Falls, Minnesota in 1982. She graduated from Florida State University with a BA, and completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. She received a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, where she was a King/Chávez/Parks Fellow. Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012) 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. Brimhall's work has been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Slate, 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 201