Poet Laureate of Kansas since 2023, Traci Brimhall was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, and holds a BA from Florida State University, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD from Western Michigan University. Her debut, Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton, 2012) was selected by Carolyn Forché for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Later collections include Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) and Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024). She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2013.
