Paisley Rekdal, winner of the 2018 Narrative Prize, is the author of the nonfiction works Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens (Norton, 2024); Appropriation: A Provocation; the essay collection The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; a memoir, Intimate, combining poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and photography; and several poetry collections, including Animal Eye, winner of the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels; and Nightingale. Rekdal teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of an archive project entitled Mapping Salt Lake City.
Photograph by Austen Diamond.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Narrative 10, an interview, in Winter 2021
- Quiver and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2018
- Io and Other Poems, poetry, in Winter 2017
- Baucis and Philemon, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2014–2015