Paisley Rekdal, winner of the 2018 Narrative Prize and former poet lauretae of Utah, is the author of several poetry collections, including Heritance (Copper Canyon Press, 2026) and West: A Translation, which won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She has also published several works of nonfiction, including the essay collection The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, the hybrid memoir Intimate, and Appropriate: A Provocation. Her work has received multiple Pushcart Prizes and the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, among other honors. Rekdal is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah.
Photograph by Austen Diamond.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Narrative 10, an interview, in Winter 2021
- Quiver and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2018
- Io and Other Poems, poetry, in Winter 2017
- Baucis and Philemon, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2014–2015