Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (Norton, 2012), winner the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (SIU Press, 2010), winner of the Crab Orchard Series First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Slate, VQR, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a doctoral candidate and King/Chávez/Parks Fellow at Western Michigan University.
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