Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall is the author of the poetry collections Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton, 2012); and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.

Brimhall has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Parks Service. She is a professor of creative writing at Kansas State University and lives in Manhattan, Kansas.

In 2022, Brimhall was appointed poet laureate of Kansas and will serve until 2026. In 2024, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Brimhall is also serving as the 2025 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence.