Wyatt Townley

Wyatt Townley was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and received a BFA in dance from Purchase College at the State University of New York–Purchase. 

She is the author of four collections of poetry: Rewriting the Body (forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin University Press); The Afterlives of Trees (Woodley Press, 2011), winner of the Nelson Poetry Book Award; The Breathing Field (Little, Brown & Co., 2002); and Perfectly Normal (The Smith, 1990). She is also the author of Yoganetics (HarperCollins, 2002).

Townley served as the poet laureate of Kansas from 2013 to 2015 and remains the state’s poet laureate emeritus.  She teaches yoga and lives in Kansas.

Bibliography

Poetry
Rewriting the Body (forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin University Press)
The Afterlives of Trees (Woodley Press, 2011)
The Breathing Field (Little, Brown & Co., 2002)
Perfectly Normal (The Smith, 1990)

Prose
Yoganetics (HarperCollins, 2002)