Paisley Rekdal
Associate Professor, English
English
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 3403 LNCO
Office Hours: M, T, W 3:00-4:30
Office Phone: (801) 581-7350
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>> Curriculum Vitae
Degrees:
1996 MFA University of Michigan
1994 MA University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies
1993 BA, Honors University of Washington
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, THE NIGHT MY MOTHER MET BRUCE LEE (Pantheon, October 2000 and Vintage Books, April 2002), and three books of poetry, A CRASH OF RHINOS (University of Georgia Press, October 2000), SIX GIRLS WITHOUT PANTS (Eastern Washington University Press, November 2002) and THE INVENTION OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE (University of Pittsburgh Press/Pitt Poetry Series, April 2007). INTIMATE, a hybrid photo-text memoir that combines poems, nonfiction, and fiction with photography, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review, among others.
Selected Publications:
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee
(Book), 2000
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope
(Poetry Collection), 2007
Six Girls Without Pants
(Poetry Collection), 2002
A Crash of Rhinos
(Poetry Collection), 2000
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
Poetry, Contemporary American and British (2)
Current Courses
ENGL 5830-1 Studies Asian Amer Lit
Courses I Teach
ENGL 2040 Contemporary Lit
ENGL 2600 Crit Intro To Lit Forms
ENGL 5050 Studies In Genre
ENGL 5520 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 5830 Studies Asian Amer Lit
ENGL 7460 Theory and Practice of Poetry
Awards
2009
Pushcart Prize - Pushcart Press
2007
Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship - University of Utah
2007
Utah Arts Council Poetry Fellowship - Utah Arts Council
2003
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts
2002
Laurence Goldstein Poetry Award - Michigan Quarterly Review
2001
Wyoming Council for the Arts Fellowship - Wyoming Arts Council
2000
Contemporary Poetry Series Award - University of Georgia Press
2000
Writer on the Verge Award - The Village Voice
1996
Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea - Fulbright Organization