Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; a hybrid-genre photo-text entitled Intimate; and five books of poetry, including Animal Eye, finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize, and most recently Imaginary Vessels. Her latest nonfiction work is The Broken Country, which won the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize. She has also received an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship. She teaches at the University of Utah and is Utah’s poet laureate. (updated 4/2018)

Rekdal’s Nightingale was reviewed in AGNI Online by Alyse Bensel.