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Traci Brimhall
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Traci Brimhall is the author of three poetry collections: Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012); and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her children's book, Sophia & The Boy Who Fell, was published by SeedStar Books in March 2017. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Slate, The Believer, Kenyon Review, and The New Republic. Her essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Copper Nickel, Seneca Review, and Brevity. A 2013 NEA Fellow in Poetry, she holds degrees from Florida State University (BA), Sarah Lawrence College (MFA), and Western Michigan University (PhD). She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.
The Last Book I Loved: Small Porcelain Head
The first time I read Allison Benis White’s Small Porcelain Head, I was screening manuscripts for a book prize on my honeymoon. Admittedly, it’s an odd way to celebrate nuptials,…