Traci Brimhall is the author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon, 2020), Saudade (Copper Canyon, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, Poetry, the Believer, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. A 2013 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, she’s the director of creative writing at Kansas State University.