Register here: https://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/paisleyrekdal-vsccrafttalk. A private Zoom link will be provided.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is available now from W.W. Norton. She was the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.
She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.
MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATIONS: A limited number of slots are available to work one-on-one with Virtual Visiting Writer, Paisley Rekdal.
Fee: $100. Register here. Financial assistance may be available.
Contact: writing@vermontstudiocenter.org
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