Traci Brimhall

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Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2023-2026

Traci Brimhall is the author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). She is an assistant professor at Kansas State University and lives in Manhattan, Kansas. In 2022, she was appointed poet laureate of Kansas.