Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction |
Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction
University of Georgia Press
2016-10-05
Paisley Rekdal (photo credit: Austen Diamond)
Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Rekdal is an essayist, photographer, and poet. She is the author of The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, a book of essays; a photo-text memoir called Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, Imaginary Vessels, and Animal Eye. She has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work. She currently holds the position of managing editor at Mapping Salt Lake City, a community-written web atlas of Salt Lake City of which she is creator. She is a professor of English at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Paisley Rekdal’s The Broken Country will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2017…
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