Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000 and Vintage 2002), and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000), Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002), and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (University of Pittsburgh Press 2007). Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Quarterly West, and on National Public Radio among others. Paisley Rekdal is one of 40-some authors who will conduct presentations and sign their books during the Wyoming Book Festival Sept. 14-15 in Cheyenne.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
WyoBookFest profile: Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000 and Vintage 2002), and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000), Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002), and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (University of Pittsburgh Press 2007). Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Quarterly West, and on National Public Radio among others. Paisley Rekdal is one of 40-some authors who will conduct presentations and sign their books during the Wyoming Book Festival Sept. 14-15 in Cheyenne.
