Paisley Rekdal | |
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| Occupation | Professor, University of Utah, Goddard College |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Washington (BA) Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (MA) University of Michigan (MFA) |
| Genre | Poetry |
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Paisley Rekdal is an American poet who is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah.[1] She is the author of a book of essays entitled The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In, the memoir Intimate, as well as six books of poetry. For her work, she has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes in both 2009 and 2013, Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and several other awards from the state arts council. She has been recognized for her poems and essays in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series, and on National Public Radio,[2] among others. She was also a recipient of a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.[3]