Traci Brimhall

 Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, forthcoming), winner of the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. A former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she currently teaches at Western Michigan University, where she is a doctoral associate and King/Chávez/Parks Fellow.