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Rekdal grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MA from the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of the poetry collections A Crash of Rhinos , Six Girls Without Pants , and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope as well as the book of essays The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In .

In reviewing The Invention of the Kaleidoscope for Barn Owl Review, Jay Robinson observed that it’s “the razor’s edge that always accompanies eros that makes the poems of Paisley Rekdal fresh, intense and ultimately irresistible.” Rekdal’s work grapples with issues of race, sexuality, myth, and identity while often referencing contemporary culture.

Rekdal has been honored with a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and the 2010 Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Rekdal teaches at the University of Utah.

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Paisley Rekdal

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Books from Paisley Rekdal

The Best American Poetry 2020

Appropriate: A Provocation

Animal Eye

The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

Intimate: An American Family Photo Album

The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam

The Asian American Literary Review

Kenyon Review Winter 2011

Kenyon Review, Nov/Dec 2018

Kenyon Review, July/Aug 2021: Volume 43, Number 4

Six Girls without Pants

The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In

A Crash of Rhinos

Nightingale