Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; a hybrid-genre photo-text entitled Intimate; and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), Appropriate: A Provocation (W.W. Norton, 2021), Animal Eye, finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize, and most recently West: A Translation (Copper Canyon, 2023), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. A former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she directs the American West Center. Rekdal is also the editor and creator of the digital archive projects West, Mapping Literary Utah, and Mapping Salt Lake City. (updated 10/ 2024)

Rekdal’s poem “Four Marys” (AGNI 87) was chosen for The Best American Poetry 2019. Her collection Nightingale was reviewed in AGNI Online by Alyse Bensel.