Blackbird/Diode Reading, AWP 2013 

Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton & Company, 2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The Believer, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and The Best American Poetry 2013. She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the King/Chávez/Parks Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Photo by Julie Beers