Traci Brimhall is the author of three collections of poetry: Saudade (Copper Canyon Press), Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press). Her next collection, a hybrid of essays and poems, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, was published by Copper Canyon Press in March 2020. Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, and The Best American Poetry series. She’s received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Kansas State University.
