She grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto for Medieval Studies and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan. She was also a recipient of a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship. She has been recognized for her poems and essays in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series, and on National Public Radio, among others. For her work, she has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes in both 20, Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and several other awards from the state arts council. She is the author of a book of essays entitled The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In, the memoir Intimate, as well as six books of poetry. Paisley Rekdal is an American poet who is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (MA) Professor, University of Utah, Goddard College
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