Nightingale

Paisley Rekdal (born 1970, Seattle, Washington) is a poet of Chinese-Norwegian heritage and one of the most critically acclaimed American poets of her generation. She is the author of seven poetry collections, including Animal Eye (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), winner of the Rilke Prize; Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), a reimagining of Ovid's myths of transformation and sexual violence; and West: A Translation (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. She earned a BA from the University of Washington and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Named Utah's Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2022, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.