Paisley Rekdal is the author of six volumes of poetry, including Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), Imaginary Vessels (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), Animal Eye (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), winner of the 2013 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas, and A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press, 2000), winner of the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award. Rekdal was named poet laureate of Utah in 2017. In 2019, she was named an inaugural Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. For more about American poetry, visit Poets.org.
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